Aeroplane is the most cruelest form of 3rd degree torture perpetrated
by police on suspects. Many innocent people have confessed to crimes
hey have not at all committed unable to bear the torture , pain. Many
innocents have been murdered in lock-ups by police during these type
of 3rd degree torture. Even if we go by the logic of police that
criminals only
sing under torture & they rightly deserve it , when a
petty criminal stealing
Rs.10000
is fit for "AEROPLANE TORTURE" ,
what about criminals stealing crores of rupees , what about corrupt
police who aid tens
of such big time criminals by filing B-report ,
by putting
weak case of prosecution , by delaying tactics allowing
for destruction of evidences , etc , what about judges who acquits big
time criminals , who give judicial orders while they are in a drunken
state , who
acquit big criminals by conducting hearings even on dates
of government holidays (concocted). ARE NOT THESE CORRUPT POLICE &
JUDGES FIT FOR "BUSINESS
CLASS AEROPLANE
RIDE TORTURE as per the
same logic of police.

Why not 3rd degree torture of Chief Justice of India ,
Union Home Secretary and DG & IG of Police for Karnataka who are NOT singing , NOT ANSWERING questions given below ?

At the outset , e - Voice salutes the few honest police personnel who
are
silently doing their duties inspite of pressures , harassment by
political bosses & corrupt superiors , inspite of frequent transfers ,
promotion holdups , etc. overcoming the lure of bribe ,those few are
silently doing their duties without any publicity or fanfare. we
salute
them & pay our respects to them and hereby appeal to those few honest
to catch their corrupt colleagues.

The police are trained , to crack open the cases of crimes by just
holding onto a thread of clue. Based on that clue they investigate
like
"Sherlock holmes" and apprehend the real criminals. nowadays , when
police are under various pressures , stresses - they are frequently
using 3rd
degree torture methods on innocents. Mainly there are 3
reasons for this :
1) when
the investigating officer (I.O) lacks the brains of
Sherlock
holmes , to cover-up his own inefficiency he uses 3rd degree torture
on
innocents.
2) When
the I.O is biased towards rich , powerful crooks , to
frame
innocents & to extract false confessions from them , 3rd degree
torture
is used on innocents.
3) When
the I.O is properly doing the investigations , but the
higher-ups need very quick results - under work stress I.O uses 3rd
degree torture on innocents.

Nowhere in statuette books , police are legally authorized to punish
let alone torture the detainees / arrested / accussed / suspects. Only
the judiciary has the right to punish the guilty not the police. Even
the judiciary doesn't have the right to punish the accussed /
suspects , then how come police are using 3rd degree torture
unabetted.
Even during encounters , police only have the legal right , authority
to immobilize the opponents so as to arrest them but not to kill them.

There is a reasoning among some sections of society & police that use
of 3RD DEGREE TORTURE by police is a detterent of crimes. It is false
& biased. Take for instance there are numerous scams involving 100's
of crores of public money - like stock scam , fodder scam , etc
involving rich businessmen , VVIP crooks. Why don't police use 3rd
degree torture against such rich crooks and recover crores of public
money where as the police use 3rd degree torture against a
pick-pocketer to recover hundred rupees stolen ? double standards by
police.

In media we have seen numerous cases of corrupt police officials in
league with criminals. For the sake of bribe , such police officials
bury cases , destroy evidences , go slow , frame innocents , murder
innocents in the name of encounter , etc. why don't police use 3rd
degree torture against their corrupt colleagues who are aiding
criminals , anti nationals ? double standards by police.

All the bravery of police is shown before poor , innocents , tribals ,
dalits , before them police give the pose of heroes. Whereas , before
rich , VVIP crooks , they are zeroes. They are simply like scarecrows
before rich crooks.

Torture in any form by anybody is inhuman & illegal. For the purpose
of
investigations police have scientific investigative tools like
polygraph, brain mapping , lie detector , etc. these scientific tools
must be used against rich crooks & petty criminals without bias.

Hereby we urge the GOI & all state governments :
1) to
book cases of murder against police personnel who use 3rd
degree
torture on detainees and kill detainees in the name of encounter
killings.
2) To
dismiss such inhuman , cruel personnel from police service
and to
forfeit all monetary benefits due to them like gratuity , pension ,
etc.
3) To
pay such forfeited amount together with matching government
contribution as compensation to family of the victim's of 3rd degree
torture & encounter killings.
4) To
review , all cases where false confessions were extracted
from
innocents by 3rd degree torture.
5) To
make liable the executive magistrate of the area , in whose
jurisdiction torture is perpetrated by police on innocents.
6) To
make it incumbent on all judicial magistrates ,to provide a
torture free climate to all parties , witnesses in cases before his
court.
7) To
make public the amount & source of ransom money paid to
forest
brigand veerappan to secure the release of matinee idol mr. raj kumar.
8) To
make public justice A.J.Sadashiva's report on "torture of
tribals , human rights violations by Karnataka police in M.M.HILLS ,
KARNATAKA".
9) To
make it mandatory for police to use scientific tools of
investigations like brain mapping , polygraph , etc without bias
against suspects rich or poor.
10)
To include human rights education in preliminary & refresher
training of police personnel.
11)
To recruit persons on merit to police force who have aptitude
&
knack for investigations.
12)
To insulate police from interference from politicians &
superiors.
13)
To make police force answerable to a neutral apex body instead
of
political bosses. Such body must be empowered to deal with all service
matters of police.
14)
The political bosses & the society must treat police in a
humane
manner and must know that they too have practical limitations. Then on
a reciprocal basis , police will also treat others humanely.
15)
The police must be relieved fully from the sentry duties of
biggies
& must be put on detective , investigative works.

Nowadays , we are seeing reports of corruption by police & judges in
the media and are also seeing reports of raids by vigilance
authorities seizing crores of wealth from such corrupt police. Some
Judges have also amassed crores of wealth. Who gives them money ? it
is rich criminals , anti-nationals . By taking bribe & hiding the
crimes of criminals , the corrupt police & judges are themselves
becoming active parties in the crimes , anti-national activities.
Those shameless , corrupt police & judges are nothing but traitors &
anti – nationals themselves. When an innocent is subjected to 3rd
degree torture to extract truth with justification by investigating
agencies that all for the sake of national security , what degree of
torture these corrupt ,
anti-national police & judges qualify for ?
what type of aeroplane or helicopter the corrupt police / judges must
ride ? ofcourse , for protection of national security. Here also
police & judges have double standards , what a shame.

We at e – voice are for "Rule of Law" & abhor all type of
violence.
Truly these police & judges are not building a Ram Rajya of our
Mahatma Gandhi's dream.

Jai Hind. Vande Mataram.

Your's sincerely,

Nagaraj.M.R.

CRIMINALS IN POLICE UNIFORM
- An appeal to union home minister & Karnataka state home minister

The ABC of police force in India is apathy ,
brutality & corruption . in India, police are not impartially
enforcing
law instead are working as hand maidens of rich & mighty. The corrupt
police officers are collecting protection money from criminals ,
collecting money to go slow on investigations , to file B- reports ,
to
fix innocents in fake cases , to murder innocents in lock-up /
encounters . they are hand in league with land mafia , today C.M of
Karnataka himself issued a warning to police officials about this. Even
in lock-ups , jails, the rich inmates bribe
officials get better food from outside , mobile phones , drugs ,
drinks
, cigareetes , etc. they get spacious cells & get best private medical
care . where as the poor inmates are even denied food , health care ,
living space as per the provisions of law. The corrupt jail officials
instigate rowdy elements in the jails to assault poor inmates & to toe
their line. More corrupt the police more wealthier he is. Even CBI
officials are no different. The only beacon of hope is still there are
few honest people left in the police force.
Hereby , e-voice urges you to make public the
following
information in the interest of justice.

They are our own Gitmos. Where, far
away from the prying eyes of the law, ‘enemies of the state’ are made to
‘sing’. Life inside India’s joint interrogation cells can scar people for life.
THE WEEK investigates

By Syed Nazakat

Little Terrorist, as the
intelligence sleuths came to call him, turned out to be a hard nut to crack. No
amount of torture would work on 20-year-old Mohammed Issa, who was picked up
from Delhi on February 5, 2006. The Delhi Police believed that he had a hotline
to Lashkar-e-Toiba deputy chief Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhwi, who later masterminded
the 26/11 attack on Mumbai. At a secret detention centre in Delhi, the police and
intelligence officers tried every single torture method in their arsenal—from
electric shock to sleep deprivation—to make Issa sing. He stuck to his original
line: that he had come from Nepal to visit a relative in Delhi. Only, they
refused believe him.

According to the police, the youth
from Uttar Pradesh, who had moved to Nepal in 2000 along with his family after
his father, Irfan Ahmed, was accused in a terrorism case, returned to India to
set up Lashkar modules in the national capital. More than six months after he
was picked up, the police announced his arrest on August 14. He has since been
shifted to the Tihar jail. His lawyer N.D. Pancholi said Issa was kept in
illegal custody for months. If not, let the police say where he was between
February 5 and August 15, he challenged.

Issa could have been detained in any
of Delhi’s joint interrogation centres, used by the police and intelligence
agencies to extract precious information from the detainees using methods
frowned upon by the law. As one top police officer told THE WEEK in the course
of our investigation, these torture chambers spread across the country are our
“precious assets”. They are our own little Guantanamo Bays or Gitmos (where the
US tortures terror suspects from Afghanistan and elsewhere for information).

Not many admit their existence,
because doing so could result in human rights activists knocking at their doors
and bad press for the smartly dressed intelligence men. It is a murky and
dangerous world, according to K.S. Subramanian, Tripura’s former
director-general of police, who has also served in the Intelligence Bureau.
“Such sites exist and are being used to detain and interrogate suspected
terrorists and it has been going on for a long time,” he told THE WEEK. “Even
senior police officers are reluctant to talk about the system.” So are people
who have been to these virtual hells that officially do not exist.

THE WEEK has identified 15 such
secret interrogation centres—three each in Mumbai, Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir,
two each in Kolkata and Gujarat and one each in Rajasthan and Assam. (One
detention centre that is shared by all security and law enforcement agencies is
the one in Palanpur, close to the Indo-Pak border in Rajasthan.) Their
locations have been arrived at after speaking to serving and retired top
officers who had helped set up some of these facilities. Those who have spent
time in these places had no idea where they are. They were taken blindfolded
and were allowed no visitors. The only faces they got to see were those of the
interrogators, day in and day out.

The biggest of the three detention
centres in Mumbai, the Aarey Colony facility in Goregaon, has four rooms. The
Anti-Terrorism Squad questioned Saeed Khan (name changed), one of the accused
in the Malegaon blasts of September 2006, here. He was served food at irregular
intervals (led to temporary disorientation) and was denied sleep. Another
secret detention centre maintained in the city by the ATS at Kalachowky has a
sound-proof room. Sohail Shaikh, accused in the July 2006 train bombings, was
held here for close to two months. “He was kept in isolation for days
together,” said an officer. “He crumbled after being subjected to hostile
sessions. Intentional infliction of suffering does not always yield immediate
results. Sometimes you have to wait for many days for the detainee to break. It
is a tedious process.” The smallest of the three facilities at Chembur has just
two rooms.

Parvez Ahmed Radoo, 30, of Baramula
district in Kashmir, was illegally detained in Delhi for over a month for
allegedly trying to plot mass murder in the national capital on behalf of the
Jaish-e-Mohammed. The Delhi Police’s chargesheet says he was arrested from the
Azadpur fruit market in Delhi on October 14, 2006. But according to Parvez’s flight
itinerary, he travelled from Srinagar to Delhi on September 12 on Spice Jet
flight 850. The flight landed at Delhi airport at 12.10 p.m. He had to catch
another flight at 1.30 p.m. (Spice Jet flight 217) to Pune, where, according to
his parents, he was going to pursue his Ph.D. But he never boarded the Pune
flight as he disappeared from the Delhi airport.

Parvez wrote an open letter from the
Tihar jail, where he is currently held, in which he said he was arrested from
the airport on September 12 and kept in custody for a month. Apparently, he was
first taken to the Lodhi Colony police station and then to an apartment in
Dwarka, where electrodes were attached to his genitals and power was switched
on. (Delhi’s secret detention centres are located at Dwarka in south-west
Delhi, the Interstate Cell of the Crime Branch in Chanakyapuri in central
Delhi, and the Lodhi Colony police station in south Delhi.)

“After my arrest on September 12, I
was taken to Pune, where I was shown pictures of many Kashmiri boys,” Parvez
said in the letter, which is in the possession of THE WEEK. “They wanted me to
identify them. As I didn’t know any one of them, they brought me to Delhi again
and threw me into the torture chamber of Lodhi Road [sic] police station. They
took off my clothes and started beating me like an animal, so ruthlessly that
my feet and fingers started bleeding. I was later forced to clean the
blood-stained floor with my underwear. They gave me electric shocks and
stretched my legs to extreme limits, resulting in internal haemorrhage. I
started passing blood with my urine and stool. Later I was shifted to one flat
in Dwarka. From the adjacent flats, voices of crying and screaming had been
coming, indicating presence of other persons being tortured.”

Throughout his detention, wrote
Parvez, he was asked to lie to his parents that everything was fine. In the
letter he also gave the mobile number from which the calls were
made—9960565152. His family is trying to collect the call site details of the
number to prove his illegal detention.

Delhi-based journalist Iftikhar
Geelani, who spent nine days in the Lodhi Colony police station after his
arrest in 2002 on spying charges, is yet to get over the traumatic experience.
“There are lock-ups with such low ceilings that a person will not be able to
stand,” he said. “There is an interrogation centre within the police station
where people are brutally tortured with cables, and some are completely
undressed and abused. They also have a facility to raise the temperature of the
cell to a point where it is unbearable and then suddenly bring it down to
freezing cold.”

But Maloy Krishna Dhar, former joint
director of the IB, confirmed the existence of secret detention centres in
Delhi and other parts of the country. He was convinced that detention outside
the police station and torture are an inevitable part of the war on terrorism.
“Now I would never dream of doing the things I did when I was in charge,” said
Dhar. “But security agencies need such facilities.” Interrogating suspected
terrorists at secret detention centres, he said, is the most effective way to
gather intelligence. “If you produce a suspect before court, he will never give
you anything after that,” he said. In other words, once you record the arrest
you are within the realm of the law and you have to acknowledge the rights of
the accused-arrested and contend with his lawyer.

An officer who worked in one of the
detention centres admitted that extreme physical and psychological torture,
based loosely on the regime in Guantanamo Bay, is used to extract information
from the detainees. It includes assault on the senses (pounding the ear with
loud and disturbing music) and sleep deprivation, keeping prisoners naked to
degrade and humiliate them, and forcibly administering drugs through the rectum
to further break down their dignity. “The interrogators isolate key operatives
so that the interrogator is the only person they see each day,” he said. “In
extreme cases we use pethidine injections. It will make a person crazy.”

Molvi Iqbal from Uttar Pradesh, a
suspected member of the Harkat-ul-Jihadi-Islami who is currently lodged in
Tihar, was held at a secret detention centre for two months according to his
relatives. They alleged that during interrogation a chip was implanted under
his skin so that his movements could be tracked if he tried to escape. “He
fears that the chip is still inside his skin,” said one of his relatives. “That
has shattered him.”

Kolkata has its own Gitmos in
Bhabani Bhawan, the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department, and
the Alipore Retreat in Tollygunj, a large bungalow that is said to have 20
rooms. They were bursting at the seams at the height of the Naxalite movement,
but are more or less quiet now. “A large number of innocent people, as well as
suspected terrorists, have disappeared after being taken to such secret
detention centres,” said Kirity Roy, a Kolkata-based human rights lawyer.
“Their bodies would later be found, if at all, in the fields.”

That was how militancy was tackled,
first in Punjab and then in Kashmir. Today no secret prison exists in Kashmir
officially after the notorious Papa-2 interrogation centre was closed down. But
secret torture cells thrive across the state. The most notorious ones are the
Cargo Special Operation Group (SOG) camp in Haftchinar area in Srinagar and
Humhama in Budgam district. Then there are the joint interrogation centres in
Khanabal area of Anantnag district and Talab Tillo and Poonch areas in Jammu
region. Detentions at JICs could last months. Lawyers in Kashmir have filed
15,000 petitions since 1990 seeking the whereabouts of the detainees and the
charges against them without avail.

The most recent victim of the
torture regime was Manzoor Ahmed Beigh, 40, who was picked by the SOG from
Alucha Bagh area in Srinagar on May 18. His family alleged that he was chained
up, hung upside down from the ceiling and ruthlessly beaten up. He died the
same night. Following public outrage, the officer in charge of the camp was
dismissed from the service in June.

Maqbool Sahil, a Srinagar-based
photojournalist who was held at Hariniwas interrogation centre for 15 days,
says it is a miracle that he is alive today. “If you tell them [interrogators]
you are innocent, they will torture you so ruthlessly that you will break down
and confess to anything,” he says.

Human rights organisations are
understandably concerned. Navaz Kotwal, coordinator of the Commonwealth Human
Rights Initiative, said that there should be an open debate on the illegal
detention centres. “The US had a debate on the Gitmos. Our government should
come forward and respond to these allegations,” he said.

No one wants to compromise the
nation’s safety, but the torture becomes unbearable, and questionable, when
innocent people like the 14-year-old boy Irfan suffer (see box on page ). The
security of the country and its people is important and terrorism should be
crushed at all cost. But the largest democracy in the world should also ensure
that human rights are not violated.

Dhar defended the secret prison
system, arguing that the successful defence of the country required that the
security establishment be empowered to hold and interrogate suspected
terrorists for as long as necessary and without restrictions imposed by the legal
system. “The primary mission of the agencies is to save the nation both by
overt and covert means from any terrorist threat,” he said. “But to keep the
programme secret is a horrible burden.”

with Anupam Dasgupta

(The Week, July 12, 2009)

INTERVIEW//K.S. Subramanian, former
director general of police, Tripura

“It is a murky business”

By Syed Nazakat

Former director general of police,
Tripura, Dr K.S. Subramanian, can be called an insider. He has served in the
Intelligence Bureau, worked as director in the research and policy division of
the home ministry and has been chief of intelligence in the troubled northeast.
In an interview with THE WEEK, he shares his knowledge about the illegal
detention centres in India. He is frustrated over the shadowy work of some
police officers and over incidents like the killing of 59 innocent people,
which the police called a naxal encounter. He recalls how a senior IPS officer
shouted at ‘naxalites’ in a conference and said, “When I hear you people talk,
I wish I had brought my revolver!” Excerpts.

There are allegations that suspected
terrorists are being detained illegally in and out of police stations and
tortured.

Unfortunately, priority is given to
peace and order at the cost of law and justice, which might have led to the
emergence of such facilities.

Have you come across such facilities
during your service?

It is likely that such sites do
exist and are used to detain and interrogate suspected terrorists. Perhaps they
have existed for long. However, the Union home ministry is handicapped with
regard to the information it receives on many issues of internal security. The
IB, manned entirely by the IPS at the top, and the state police agencies are
its main source of information. Often, their reports are biased and inadequate
for policy formulation. I can cite many instances. In terrorist-related cases,
the police may feel an incentive to describe people as terrorists and kill them
for professional reasons and career advancement.

Who controls these illegal detention
centres? What was your experience in the home ministry?

It is a murky business. Senior
police officers would be hesitant to talk about the system in operation. The
ministry of home affairs does not directly handle such operations; they are the
task of agencies like the RAW and the IB. Public awareness about such
activities can help check such illegalities, but you know that recently even
agencies of advanced democracies such as the US have come to adverse notice for
running such centres. President Obama has been courageous about admitting the
unethical nature of such facilities in the US and trying to close them down.
There is scope for a healthy debate on such issues in a vibrant democracy such
as ours.

Many die inside these torture
chambers.

Last year, the NGO People’s Watch
brought out a disturbing report on police torture, which showed, after an
extensive study in several states, that about 1.8 million people, most of them
belonging to SC/ST communities, minorities and women, are victim to police torture
every year in India. Shockingly, there has been no official refutation of this
important report so far. I remember when I was director in the Union ministry
of home affairs [between 1980 and 1985], there was a series of incidents in a
north Indian state in which, according to the press, a large number of so
called naxalites were killed in police action. There was uproar in Parliament.
The state police and the central IB maintained that only 12 people were killed,
and that all of them were naxalites.

However, when the state chief
secretary was asked to come to the Union home ministry for a discussion, he
frankly admitted that no less than 59 people were killed in these incidents and
that none of them was a naxalite! Most of those killed were members of a local
peasant organisation fighting for social justice under the Constitution and
other laws of the land.

Many argue that to ensure peace, the
country requires that the security establishment be empowered to hold and
interrogate suspected terrorists for as long as necessary and without
restrictions imposed by the legal system. Do you agree?

I know there is the fear of
terrorism, and it’s a different world. But maintaining our moral compass during
these difficult times, and the integrity of who we are as people, is enormously
critical.
So to me, this isn’t just about illegal detention. It’s about the policies
still in place that can contribute to establishment of our Gitmos.

How can the police deal with
terrorism and at the same time uphold rule of law and human rights?

There are set rules for the police
to follow. But the problem is that there is a tendency among some officers to
believe that while dealing with suspected terrorists, they are not obliged to
follow constitutional methods. Our leaders may say we don’t believe in torture,
but many in our intelligence and police agencies think there is a place for
torture in the investigation of cases, especially terrorist related. There is a
need for attitudinal change in many police officers.

(The
Week, July 12, 2009)

Little Terrorist

By Syed Nazakat in Delhi

The playful spark of a 14-year-old
is missing in Irfan’s eyes. Instead there is helplessness, pain, horror and a
lurking fear. The dark shades could make him anything—a crusader, a criminal or
plain timid. The training ground was a forlorn torture chamber somewhere in
Gujarat.
The boy was picked up on May 25 last year allegedly by the Gujarat Police, who
were in fact looking for his father, Mohammed Azhar. Irfan still remembers the
white Tavera (GCIG-4522) that screeched to a halt in front of him as he was
trying to cross the road outside his shop in Seelampur. Two men got out, held a
pistol to his head and pushed him into the car. Later, they pinned him down
with their feet, kicked him in the torso and slapped him several times. And
when he tried to speak, he got a sharp jab in the ribs.
Lying on the floor of the car, the boy had no idea where he was being taken.
His captors drove whole day and night and finally he was pulled out from the
car into a detention centre, which had two black cells. He was dumped into one
of them. There were no windows in the cell, yet from the honking of the
vehicles and the occasional noise of a crowd, he guessed the place to be not
far from the city.
The detention was almost a Guantanamo or an Abu Ghraib from his narration. His
interrogators wore civilian dress, but were near cannibals in attitude. Irfan
was interrogated by a tall person, whose name he doesn’t remember. “The man
would brutally beat me up and tell me, ‘As long as your father does not
surrender, we will not let you go’.”

Back home, Irfan’s mother, Tasleema,
was frantically searching for him. Fortunately, his friends had seen the number
plate of the Tavera. The family complained to the Seelampur police station, and
three days later, Tasleema was told that her son was in the custody of Gujarat
Police in Ahmedabad.She then filed a habeas corpus petition before the Delhi
High Court, which directed the police to release the boy. Thus, after 10 days
of detention, Irfan was brought back and released. On the court’s direction,
the Seelampur police have lodged an FIR against the Gujarat Police.

Irfan’s tiny body is now a shambles.
His mother says she was shattered when she heard about the torture her son had
to bear. “Since his release, he is being treated for abdominal pain and
discomfort,” she says. The boy’s ordeal has not ended yet. His family gets
threat calls from the Gujarat Police, warning them not to appear before the
court. Irfan’s father hasn’t yet returned home, making his family prone to more
police harassment.
A day before the last hearing in the case, the police raided his home at 3 a.m.
“We have lodged a report against the Gujarat Police,” Tasleema says. The
Seelampur police station refused to comment on the case, but confirmed that an
FIR has been filed against the Gujarat Police.
We got to know of the depth of Irfan’s fear only when we got up to leave. With
tears in his eyes, he pleaded for our help. “Please save me from the police,”
he says. He fears they might any day return for him.
(Name of the boy has been changed to protect identity)

(THE WEEK, July12, 2009)

Fifteen days of horror

By Maqbool Sahil

Once I was inside my cell, I
wondered aloud: Where am I? A voice filtering through the slit in the steel
door told me that I was in the Hariniwas interrogation chamber in Kashmir. I
was picked up on September 16, 2006, by the Counter Insurgency Kashmir [a
special wing of J&K Police that deals with terrorism-related cases] which
accused me of spying for Pakistan. My family was not informed about my arrest.
When the interrogation started, I was least prepared for the ordeal. They
bombarded me with questions: Who else is working with you for Pakistan? To whom
are you sending pictures from Kashmir [he is a photo-journalist]? When they did
not get the answers they wanted, the torture intensified. I was subjected to
sleep deprivation and was denied food for the first three days. I was kicked
and beaten with a rubber baton. They then chained my hands and left me hanging
from the top of a door. They told me in no uncertain terms that unless I
confessed that I was spying for Pakistan, I would not see my family again. I
cried often. Sometimes I thought I would die in that dark torture cell and no
one would ever know about it.
On the fifth day, my feet were manacled and I was ruthlessly beaten up. I then
heard somebody outside say, “Don’t worry, I will make him speak.” I peered
through the slit in the door and found that it was Senior Superintendent of
Police Ashkhoor Wani, who headed the CIK. As a journalist I knew him for years.
He was notorious but I had never imagined that one day I would become his prey.
The torture started afresh. My hands were tied behind with a rope, one end of
which was rolled over a metal pipe fixed to the ceiling. They pulled the rope
and I was hanging in mid-air. It was very painful. I felt as if my brain was
going to burst. Every time I was subjected to this torture, I collapsed and
lost consciousness. The torture would then stop, only to restart when I
regained consciousness. When they tired of it, they stretched my legs wide and
the balls of the joints were displaced. I could not walk properly for six
months after that.
There were over 30 people detained there. I didn’t know where they were from.
But they all were terrified and silent. After 15 days, the CIK prepared a
dossier on me and I was detained under the Public Safety Act for over three
years. I was released in January after the police failed to press charges
against me in court.

The detention facility has since
been shifted to Humhama area in Budgam district.
As told to Syed Nazakat

The courageous struggle of the
prisoners at Pelican Bay should make many more people sit up and take notice
and ask—and find the answers to—some important questions about the U.S. prison
system.

Why does the U.S. , which has 5% of
the world's population, have 25% of its prisoners?

Why has the number of prisoners in
the U.S. gone from half a million in 1980 to over 2.3 million in the last three
decades?

Why are so many of those
incarcerated in the U.S. people of color?

And why does the U.S. routinely
carry out torture in its prisons?

The truth of the matter—and the
bigger context for the inhumane conditions in maximum security units like the
Pelican Bay Prison SHU—is that this system, with its police, laws, courts, and
prisons is using mass incarceration to enforce oppressive economic and
social relations, especially in terms of the systematic subjugation of Black
people as a people. And I really encourage people to read the special Revolution
issue on prisons, “From the Hellholes of Incarceration to a Future of
Emancipation,” which provides a deep analysis of mass incarceration in the
United States.

This system of U.S. capitalism, from
its very inception , has, in large part, been built on and developed by
carrying out the most brutal oppression of Native Americans, Black people and
other people of color.

This oppression has been woven into
the whole fabric of U.S. society, from the days of slavery until today.
It has been and is an integral part of the economic and social structure in
this country. White supremacy has and continues to maintain Black people in a
subjugated position in every aspect of society. And all this has created, and
today still maintains a “master class” of white people and a “pariah class” of
Black people.

In this way, the systematic
oppression of Black and other people of color has been, and continues to be,
part of the very glue that holds U.S. society together—even as it has gone
through different changes and been enforced in different ways. The outright
ownership of Black people under slavery gave way to Jim Crow segregation and Ku
Klux Klan terror. And now we have what has been called “the new Jim Crow” of
police brutality and murder and the mass incarceration of hundreds of thousands
of Black people.

The subjugation of Black people is a
pillar of this system—a part of the economic and social relations in society,
and white supremacy is a key element in the dominant ideology. And this is why
this system cannot get rid of the oppression of Black people—because to do so
would mean tearing up and undermining the whole economic, social and
ideological/culture basis of U.S. society.

Why has there been such a drastic
increase in the U.S. prison population? This
has never been in response to crime—crime rates have actually gone down over
the last three decades. This has been about control and suppression. It started
in response to the mass upsurges among Black people in the '60s—which shook the
system and had a huge impact throughout society. At the same time, globalization
and de-industrialization had devastated the inner cities and millions of Black
people, especially the youth, who could no longer be profitably employed, were
seen by this system as an unwanted, volatile “surplus” that had to be
controlled. Concessions from the system, like programs that were supposed to
address poverty and inequality, were being snatched back, leading to further
impoverishment.

As the special Revolution issue
on the oppression of Black people said, “Two things were at work: the needs of
capital, which continued to gain advantage from racist discrimination and
ghetto-ization of millions of African-Americans; and the necessity of the
capitalists to not disrupt—and in fact to reassert and reinforce with a
vengeance — the social glue of white supremacy—the ways in which the lie of the
‘master class' were so integral to so many people's understanding of ‘being
American.'” (“The Oppression of Black People, The Crimes of This System and the
Revolution We Need.”)

U.S. imperialism needed the subjugation
of Black people more than ever, but could no longer do this in the naked,
openly racist forms it had in the old Jim Crow. It is in this context that in
1969, H.R. Haldeman, President Nixon's top assistant, wrote in his diary that
“[Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is
really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not
appearing to.” It is in this context that the “war on drugs” was launched—which
has been the biggest factor behind the exponential rise in mass incarceration.

Why are prisoners routinely tortured
in U.S. prisons? The kind of extreme torture being
carried out in places like the Pelican Bay SHU is a function of the whole way
this system has criminalized, demonized and dehumanized a whole section of
society. It has to do with repressing those who this system fears; those
this system sees have the potential to rise up against their conditions
of oppression in a way that would really challenge their rule. The kind of
torture being carried out in the Pelican Bay SHU serves as a brutal way to
control those in prison. And it has a broader effect of mass terror against
Black people throughout society.

The terror carried out by KKK lynch
mobs in the South meant that any Black person had to walk in fear.
Today, police brutality and murder, the practice of racial profiling and random
“stop and frisk”; and mass incarceration targeting Black people and all the
terror that entails—means that today any Black person has to walk in
fear.

Today, mass incarceration is the
leading edge of the oppression of Black people. This continues to have a
devastating impact on those who are imprisoned: Many lives are ruined; many
youth are literally thrown away, their potential wasted. It is almost impossible
for those this system has branded a “felon” to make any kind of life for
themselves if they ever get out of prison. Having a criminal record means you
will face legal discrimination in things like employment and housing for the
rest of your life. All this is not only horrible for the individuals
involved—it is a terrible thing for society. And all this has a broader
devastating effect on mothers, fathers, spouses, children, and other loved
ones; on the Black community as a whole. The “war on drugs”—and all it means in
terms of taking away the rights and ability of Black people to get jobs, decent
housing, etc.—is a way to continue the oppression of Black people, but with the
veneer and appearance of equality.

The United States goes around
claiming it is the “leader of the free world” and protector of democracy and
human rights. But the prisoners' hunger strike has objectively exposed the
complete illegitimacy and hypocrisy of this system. This system is
responsible for the torture of prisoners. The very needs and workings of this
system have led to the mass incarceration of so many Black and Latino people.
And getting rid of this system is the only way we can get to a whole different
kind of society where there will no longer be the living hell of mass
incarceration and the people as a whole can be truly liberated.

Li Onesto is the author of Dispatches
from the People's War in Nepal and a writer for Revolution newspaper
( www.revcom.us ). She can be contacted at:
lionesto@gmail.com

Police reform and guide lines of
National Human Right Commission

The
police does not have right to take the life of any person. If by his act, the
policeman kills a person, he commits an offence of culpable homicide or
culpable homicide amounting to murder unless such killing is not an offence
under the law. Under the criminal law prevailing in India, nothing is an
offence which is done in exercise of right of private defence (section 96-106
of Indian Penal Code). But the right given under these sections of Indian Penal
Code is not absolute right and they can be exercised under the restriction
given in section 99 and 104 of same Act.

Section
46 of criminal procedure code empowers the police officer to use reasonable
force, even extending up to causing death, if found necessary to arrest the
person accused of an offence punishable with death or imprisonment of life.
Thus, it is evident that death caused in an encounter, if not justify, would
amount to an offence of culpable homicide.

So
causing death of any person without reasons can not be justified. India is a
welfare state and our constitution provides right to life and personal liberty.
It includes living with human dignity. It is the duty of state to ensure the
fundamental rights for every person.

However
the torture of police has been increasing very rapidly from the last decade. The
police encounter, custodial death, custodial rape, and the atrocities of police
are day to day news. To reduce these events the Janta Party Govenmenat set up
Soli Sorabji Panel, but before submission of the report the government fell
down and the report had not been enforced and the arbitrariness of police had
been promoted in every state. Recently Times of India news paper published that
largest number of custodial death was registered in UP.

On 22nd September, 2006 the Supreme Court of India in case of Prakash
Singh vs

Union of India in its historical
decision ordered wide reformation in police organization.

Due to its impact the police
organization would be able to work without political influential and adequate
reformation can be made in law and order. It would help in reducing atrocities.
Faced with Supreme Court directives to implement the much delayed police reforms,
union government has set in motion the process to bring a new police act,
incorporating the suggestion of the Soli Sorabji Panel. The report has called
for drastic changes in the 145 year old police act to introduce fixed two year
tenure for police officers down the line from DGP to SHO, as well as separation
of maintenance of law and order from crime investigation, duties.

Police
law is continuing from the period of British which is based on police
regulation Act, 1861. The object of police administration was to quash the
Indian before independence and to maintain the English rule, but today the
police administration is the part of India as a welfare state. So there is need
to do basic change in Indian police system. The ‘police’ are the subject comes
under state list of seventh schedule. Its provision is given in art. 245. So it
is the subject of state and it is the responsibility of state to reform the
police system. Following are the main points under police reformation:

•

The main objects of these
reformations are to establish the accountability and sensitivity of police
towards people which should be conducted through rule of law.

•

The second object of these
reformations is to fix the tenure of police

officers. Their tenure is fixed for
two year.

•

The selection procedure of DGP
should be transparent and recommendation of their promotion should be made by
Board of Public Services Commission (BPSC).

•

The State Government has been
ordered to establish a state security commission, so that the State Government
may not pressurize the police. This commission will ensure that the police will
work according to constitution and law of country.

•

There shall be a Police
Establishment Board in each state which shall decide all transfers, postions,
promotions and other services related matters of officers of and below the rank
of Dy.S.P. The State Government may interfere with the decision of the Board in
exceptional cases, only after recording its reasons for doing so.

•

There shall be Police Complaint
Authority at district level to look into the

complaints against police officer of
and up to the rank of Dy.S.P. Similarly there should be another Police Complaints Authority at the
state level to look into complaints against officers of the rank of S.P. and
above. The district level authority may be headed by retired district judge and
the state level authority is headed by retired judge of High Court.

•

The National Government shall also
set up a national level commission at the union level to prepare a panel for
being placed before the appropriate appointing authority for selection and placement
of chief of central police organization, who should be given a minimum tenure
of two years.

As per the amendment made in
criminal procedure code, section 176 makes the provision that if any dies or
disappear or rape is alleged to have been committed on any women, when such
person or women is in the custody of police or in any other custody authorized
by magistrate or court under this code in addition to the inquiry or
investigation held by police , any inquiry shall be held by Judicial Magistrate
or Metropolitan Magistrate as the case may be within whose jurisdiction the
offence has been committed. The Judicial Magistrate or Metropolitan Magistrate
or Executive Magistrate or police officer holding an inquiry or investigation
shall within 24 hours of death of such person, forward the body of deceased
with a view to its being examined to the nearest civil surgeon or other
qualified medical person appointed in this behalf by the state government
unless it is not possible to so for reasons to be recorded in writing.

Apart
from this, National Human Right Commission issued guide lines to all chief
secretaries of state and administration of union territories in dealing with
death occurring in encounters with police on 29/03/1997 and on 2/12/2003 a
revised guidelines have been issued and it was emphasized that state must send
information to the commission of all cases of death arising out of police
encounters. Following are the revised guidelines:

•

When the police officer in charge o
f a police station receives information about the death in an encounter between
the police party and others, he shall enter that information in the appropriate
register.

•

Where the police officer belonging
to the same police station are members of the encounter party, whose action
resulted in death, it is desirable that such cases are made over for
investigation to some other independent investigating agency, such as State
CBCID. •

Whenever a specific complaint is
made against the police alleging commission of a criminal act on their part,
which makes out a cognizable case of culpable homicide, am FIR to this effect
must be registered under appropriate sections of the IPC. Such case shall
invariably be investigated by State CBCID.

•

A
magisterial inquiry must invariably be held in all cases of death which occur
in the course of police action. The next of kin of the deceased must invariably
be associated in such inquiry.

•

Prompt prosecution and disciplinary
action must be initiated against all delinquent officers found guilty in the
magisterial enquiry/ police investigation.

•

Question of granting compensation to
the dependents of the deceased

would depend upon the facts and
circumstances of each case.

•

No out of turn promotion or instant gallantry
rewards shall be bestowed on the concerned officers soon after the occurrence.
It must be ensured at all costs that such reward are given / recommended only
when the gallantry of the concerned officers is established beyond doubt.

•

A six monthly statement of all case
of death in police action in the State shall be sent by the Director General of
Police to the Commission so as to reach its office by the 15th of January and
July respectively. The statement may be sent in the following format along with
the postmortem reports and inquest reports wherever available and also the
inquiry reports:

1. Date and place of occurrence

2. Police station and district

3. Circumstances leading to deaths
i. Self defence in encounter.
ii. In the course of dispersal of unlawful assembly.
iii.In the course of effecting arrest.

Along with above guidelines the then
CJI send their request to all the state and territories

to adhere these guidelines in letter
and spirit both.

National projects on torture in
India: demands that

•

Ratified the un convention against
torture and its optional protocol

•

Enact legislation to prevent
corporal punishment in schools.

•

Enact a domestic legislation that
makes torture a punishable offence and provides

for the protection and care of
victims and witnesses.

•

Enforce strict implementation of the
Preventation Of Atrocities Act,1989

•

Establish District Human Right
Courts under the protection of Human Right Act,

1993

Now the time has come to reform the
entire police system to prevent the police torture of innocent people. The
constitution of India establishes the India as a welfare state, which can be
achieved only after following the police reformation and implement the ruling
of the apex court. The police should be people friendly. The efforts should be
made at every level and the parliament should pass the law and new Police Act
should be made by parliamentarians. This will be helpful in reducing the police
torture and it will fulfill the real sense of policing.

Main A :
At the outset , we express our whole hearted respects to all constitutional
institutions & to the honest few in public service. Contempt
of constitutional institutions , citizens ofIndiais being made by the corrupt persons in constitutional positions
themselves. This is an appeal to the honest few in public service ,
constitutional positions , to bring their corrupt colleagues to book.

just remember , the vulgar acts of Mr.Bora Babu Singh in state legislature
& how some MLAs vulgarly behaved with Ms.Jayalalita in state legislature
, years ago. Are these type of vulgar actions by MPs & MLAs legal ?
does not these constitute contempt of the house by MPs & MLAs
themselves ?

all the people’s representatives from panchayath member
to president ofIndiamust read ABCD Of Democracy provide along with.since independence ofIndiatill date
, MPs & MLAs are forcing projects on people against the wishes of
people , formulating policies against the wishes of people. Are not such
projects , government policies & Laws , undemocratic & illegal ?

is the election commission ofIndiaverifying
the authenticity of affidavits submitted by electoral candidates ?

how many candidates have been caught so far for giving
false affidavits ? are all the violators prosecuted?

are the MPs , MLAs submitting their wealth details on
affidavits yearly to vigilance authorities ? defaulters , violators how
many ?

who is checking the authenticity of those affidavits
submitted by MPs , MLAs ?

the agricultural incomes of some MPs , MLAs , their kih
& kin raises even during the time of severe drought , floods , fall in
prices of agricultural products , their companies register increase in
turnover / profits even during recession , the trusts / NGOs set up by
them receive huge donations. Are all these income legal ?

Main B :

we do once again offer our conditional services to the government of india ,
all state governments & supreme court of india , in apprehending tax
evaders , land grabbers , corrupt police , corrupt judges , corrupt public
servants , labor law violators , etc. whom the the government officials ,
vigilance authorities have failed to apprehend. Why the authorities ,
courts , supreme court ofIndia, are not ready to utilize our service ? are they afraid of being
caught ?

the public servants , courts theselves are delaying
giving information / records to us in many cases. So in the issues / cases
raised by us , the clause of time bar doe not apply. Are these delaying
tactics of public servants , courts legal ?

why no proper , timely action was not taken based on
numerous police complaints made by us ?

why DG & IGP , Government of Karnataka , has not
made any efforts to seek legal sanction for prosecution of VVIPs (
mentioned in our complaint ) , from union & state home ministries ?

the criminal nexus is trying to silence me in many ways
, but the supreme court ofIndia& national human rights
commission has failed to undo the injustices , why ? is it
because it is not a high profile case ? is it because it is not hi-fi , does not get image ratings , TRPs ?

the public servants are aiding underworld , naxalites
& terrorists , by their delaying tactics & denial of information ,
records. What action has been taken against such anti-national elements in
public service ?

how many complaints are made by Nagaraj .M.R. , Human
Rights Activist ,Mysore(editor of SOS e-clarion of dalit & SOS e-voice for
justice) to Karnataka police , to national human rights commission to
supreme court ofIndiatill date ? what action taken with respect to each
complaint ?

the delay in taking action by public servants with
respect to following cases has resulted in more crimes , destruction / manipulation of evidences
, records and more injustices to commonman. Why the authorities
did not take timely action against criminals in following cases ?

Q4. Don't the police have suo-motto powers to take action in the interest of
public welfare , law & order ?

Q5. Daily we see numerous reports of misdeeds by police , public servants ,
industrialists , etc in the media . Then why not police taking any action with
respect to them ?

Q6. nowadays we see numerous reports of scams , scandals by constitutional
functionaries , public servants in the media. Instead of wasting money ,
killing time by prolonging formation of parliamentary committees , judicial
commissions , why not subject those accussed public servants to narco analysis
, lie deector test , etc to ascertain truth & provide timely justice ?
Q7. If a commonman files a complaint , police / courts wants evidences ,
witnesses to take action against the rich & mighty crooks. Where as if a
rich person just gives a complaint against a poor chap , he is arrested ,
tortured eventhough there are no evidences , witnesses. Why this double
standard ?
Q8. If a poor chap tries to collect evidences as per his fundamental rights or
as per RTI ACT , the public servants don't give full , truthfull information.
Still , police / courts don't take action against those public servants hiding
crimes. Why ?
Q9.why I was not permitted to appear as an "amicus curie" before jain
commission of enquiry or supreme court ofindiaprobing late prime minister rajiv Gandhi assassination case ?
Q10. The criminal nexus tried to silence me , by closing my news paper , by
snatching away my job oppurtunities in government service, by physically
assaulting me , by threatening me of false fix-ups in cases & by attempts
to murder me. But no action against culprits , why ?
Q11. Whereas , I was enquired number of times by police & intelligence
personnel about this case , but the culprits were not enquired even once , why
?
Q12.who compensates the losses I have suffered due to these injustices ? are
not police responsible for it ?
Q13. Is it not the duty of police to protect the lives , livelihood of
witnesses & all parties involved , both during case & afterwards ?
Q14. How do you monitor & check corrupt police personnel & increase in
their family's wealth year after year ?
Q15. While getting appointed into government service from the rank of peon to
IAS officer , police verification is mandatory. While appointing to sensitive
defense establishments , research institutes in addition to police verification
, central intelligence agencies cross-check candidate's background. However is
there no background checks of constitutional functionaries , MPs , MLAs , , who
are privy to national secrets ? why ?
Q16. Recently , the opposition parties have made allegations during presidential
allegations that close relative of one of the front running candidates have
swindled public money by their bank , misused public money through one of their
NGO. Is it true ?
Q17.has GOI funded any terrorist outfits inindiaor abroad ?
Q18.india preaches non-violence , panchasheel principles to the world. Inindia, more than half the population are poor ,
people are starving to death. Inspite these background , GOI funded & aided
terrorist outfits in former east Pakistan ensuring the creation of Bangladesh ,
GOI has funded & aided terrorist outfits like LTTE , TULF , ETC in srilanka
, MQM in Pakistan. In turn these terrorist outfits have murdered thousands of
innocents in those countries. Are these acts of GOI just & legal ? Is not
GOI responsible for all those murders of innocents ? has GOI paid any
compensation to those victims or their family mebers ? why not ?
Q19.withinindia, to reduce the
influence of certain terrorist groups , GOI has funded & aided couter
terrorist groups , is it right & legal ?
Q20. In Jharkhand , chattisgarh , etc , the government has armed , trained
& funded "salwa judum" to counter naxalites. Salwa judum cadres
are terrorizing innocents just like naxalites. Is this action of government
just & legal ?
Q21.inindia, TADA , POTA is being rampantly misused
by police. Even where there are no problems of terrorism , TADA / POTA is being
slapped against innocents , even children. In M.M.Hills of Karnataka state ,
STF personnel charged tribal people with TADA on frivolous charges of taking
lunch to veerappan , stiching dress for the forest brigand, etc. where as the
prominent political, film , sports personalities who have links with underworld
, anti national elements & attended parties hosted by dawood Ibrahim ,
other dons in gulf countries , else where. But these hi-fi people are not
charged with TADA / POTA ? why ?
Q22. Film actor sanjay dutt had contacts with underworld & fully knowing
well the criminal objectives of criminals , hid the dangerous arms &
ammunition in his home , which were intended for terrorizing public. However
mr.dutt is not charged with TADA / POTA instead he is charged with illegal
possession of arms act ( which is normally applied to farmers who use illegal
home made guns to scare away animals , birds in their farms ). Why this
favourable treatment of mr.dutt by police ? prosecution ? is this because dutt
is politically mighty & rich ?
Q23. Law is one & same for all , the public servants, police interpretes ,
enforces it differentially between rich & poor ? why this differentiation ?
Q24.recently inBangalorepolice nabbed
criminals belonging to international criminal syndicate selling duplicate nokia
mobiles. Every nokia mobile comes with 15 digit IMEI number , this number is
also used by police for tracking criminals. In consumer dispute at consumer
disputes redressal forum Mysore CD 49/05 , nokia company stated that all it's
products come with IMEI number only & stated that the product in dispute
sold by tata indicom dealer M/S INTOTO COMMUNICATIONS , Mysore are not their's
as it doesn't have IMEI numbers. Further nokia stated they don't have any
business relationship with either tata indicom or it's dealer. However the tata
indicom dealer stated that indeed his products are genuine , first hand
products , but doesn't have IMEI numbers . this proves the dealer in collusion
with tata company is selling illegal nokia mobile hand sets & cheating the
public. These mobiles are evading taxes , as well as these are without IMEI
numbers best buy for criminal elements who want to evade police tracking. What
police are doing
Q25. Who , of which rank among police personnel takes the decision to close a
case ie to file "B" report , when after certain time limit no leads
are found in investigation ?
Q26. How do you monitor corrupt police personnel , who purposefully fail to
investigate case properly , so that either the case can be closed with
"B" report or the prosecution fails to prove the case in court ?
Q27. Who among police takes the decision to appeal against the verdict of a
lower court , when the prosecution fails ?
Q28. Who took the decision , not to appeal against theargentinacourt order acquitting mr.quatrochi accussed
in bofors scandal ?
Q29. Do you treat all the prison convicts same in the prison or does the notorious
big time rich criminals get spacious barracks with tv, news paper , adequate
food , medical care , etc while small time criminals , poor are crammed into
pig sty like rooms with 60-70 inmates without any basic requirements ?
Q30. What is the status of my complaint made to the DG & IG of police ,
government of Karnataka on10/12/2004? the copies of
complaint was released at press meet at patrakartara bhavan Mysore on same day,
even copies were given to police & intelligence personnel ?
Q31. Why no action , reply regarding the complaint till date ?
Q32. Our constitutional frame workers gave legal immunity privileges to certain
constitutional functionaries , so that they are not burdened with frivolous
court cases & can concentrate on their constitutional duties. But these
privileges doesn't cover the individual actions of those public servants like
rape , murder , dowry harassment , tax evasion , misuse of office , etc. but
still law enforcement / police department is bound to send request to home
ministry seeking permission & home ministry sits over files for months.
This gives the accussed ample time to destroy evidences. Is it right &
legal ?
Q33. Does legal immunity privileges cover their official actions alone ? if not
what does it cover ?
Q34. What is the time limit for home ministry to give sanction for the
prosecution of tainted constitutional functionaries ?
Q35. How many present MPs , MLAs , MUNICIAPAL CORPORATORS , other people's
representatives are facing criminal charges ?
Q36. In the past , how many MPs , MLAs , corporators were facing criminal
charges , yearwise since 1987 ? how many of them were eventually convicted ?
Q37. How many MPs , MLAs , prominent film , sports personalities have have
contacts with underworld , foreign intelligence agencies ?
Q38. How many of them have attended frequent parties hosted by underworld dons
in gulf countries , else where ?
Q39. How many MP , MLA , other people's representatives are wanted by police in
various cases . but shown in the police records as absconding but in reality
are attending the proceedings of the house as usual ?
Q40. When did smt. Sonia Gandhi became a citizen ofindia? did she occupy any public office before
naturalization ?
Q41. Inindia, how many MPs , MLAs
, MLCs are of foreign origin or have a spouse of foreign origin ?
Q42. Does smt. Sonia Gandhi have citizenship of any other country ?
Q43. Did she occupy any public office while enjoying dual citizenship ?
Q44. How do you monitor public servants who have spouses of foreign origin
& while they are on foreign tour , from national security perspective ?
Q45. Is mr. M.S SUBBA member of parliament a citizen ofindia?
Q46. What is the status of complaint made by former union minister
mr.subramanya swamy alleging that late P.M rajiv gandhi's family received money
from foreign intelligence agencies ?
Q47. In many cases like mass riots involving certain political parties , when
that culprit party comes to power all the cases involving it's partymen are
withdrawn by the government orelse prosecution fails to prove it's case &
prefers not to appeal. Just rememberBombayriot case involving shiv sainiks & others , when shiv sena–BJP came to power inMaharashtra, all the cases against it's partymen were
withdrawn. Are these type of decisions by government just & legal ?
Q48.what damages has been done toindia's national
security due to mole in the PMO, as alleged by former union minister mr.natwar
singh ?
Q49. What action by the government ?
Q50. How many Indians are in the custody of police / military in various
foreign countries ?
Q51. How many foreigners are there in Indian prisons ?
Q52. How GOI is protecting the human rights of these prisoners ?
Q53. Is the government paying any compensation to victims of police failures ,
fix-ups , , who suffer in jail for years & acquitted by courts upon finding
them as not guilty ?
Q54. Do you register murder charges / attempt to murder charges against guilty
police officers who are responsible for lock-up deaths , fake encounters &
3rddegree torture ?
Q55. How many cases has been filed since 1987 till date ?
Q56. What action has been taken against guilty police officers , STF personnel
who were responsible for gross human rights violations , 3rddegree
torture , lock-up deaths of innocents in forest brigand veerappan's territory ,
based on justice A.J.Sadashiva commission findings ? if not why ?
Q57. I , as a citizen ofindiaas my
"fundamental duty" hereby do offer my conditional services to GOI
& GOK to apprehend corrupt public servants. Are you ready to utilize my
services ?
Q58. Police personnel are always in the forefront of containing crimes , mass
fury , riots , etc. they suffer more & even their family members suffer
threats from the criminal elements. Do the government provide insurance
coverage to police & their family members on the lines of defense forces ?
Q59. What is the amount of coverage to a police constable & his family ?
Q60. Who makes the premium contributions ?
Q61. Do the government provide overtime allowance , food allowance to police who
daily work beyond 8 hours of duty ?
Q62. Is the government giving any training to police personnel in public
interaction , human rights ?
Q63. Is it right to post professionally trained police to sentry , orderly
duties of ministers ?
Q64. What is the ratio of police personnel to total population inindiasince 1987 ?
Q65. IS THE GOVERNMENT GIVING ADEQUATE FOOD, MEDICAL CARE , CLOTHING , LIVING
SPACE TO PRISON INMATES , AS REQUIRED BY ANORMALHUMAN EING ACCORDING TO W.H.O NORMS ?
Q66. Is the forensic science department which conducts narcfo-analysis ,
lie-detector test , etc under the control of police department ?
Q67. Is it not right to put it under impartial control of NHRC or like bodies ?
Q68. Is the action of some police officers arranging compromise meetings &
subtly insisting the poor to tow the line of rich or else face the consequences
, is it right & legal ? this happens mostly in real estate matters.
Q69. Did government make any ransom payments to forest brigand veerappan during
his various kidnappings ?
Q70. What action has been taken based on revealations by karim telgi during
narco analysis about public servants involvement ?
Q71. How many cases of allegations against judges were made in the media about
misuse of office , criminal acts by judges from munsiff court to supreme court
ofIndia? since 1947 till date
Q72. are the enquiry report findings, action taken reports of such cases
accessible to public ? if not why ?
Q73. what action has been taken against guilty judges ?
Q74. are the guilty judges legally prosecuted in all such cases ? or has it
just ended with their resignation from services or his superior judge not
allotting him any judicial work ?
Q75. why some high ranking judges are not legally prosecuted for their wrong
doings ?
Q76. are judges above law ? are not everybody equal before law ?
Q77. do the judiciary subject , all the cases handled by accussed / tainted ,
guilty judges to review , to undo past unjust judgements ?
Q78. how ? if not why ?
Q79. how do the judiciary monitor the net wealth growth of some judges
including the wealth in the name of judge's family members ?
Q80. do all the judges file their annual income , wealth statements on sworn
affidavits to the higher judiciary ? defaulters how many ?
Q81. how does the judiciary verifies those statements ?
Q82. is such statements made public , on web ?
Q83. when the judgement of a lower court is turned down by the higher court ,
what action is initiated against lower court judge for making unjust judgement
& meating out injustice ?
Q84. when allegations of corruption , misuse of office , etc against judges are
made , why the accussed–judges are not
subjected to tests like "poly graph , lie detector , brain mapping ,
etc" , in the interest of justice & truth ?
Q85. judges are not employees of government , so they are ineligible to be the
members of "Karnataka state government judicial department house building
co-operative society". Then how come , many judges including supreme court
judges are admitted as members of this society & allotted prime residential
site worth crores of rupees for a few thousands by the said society at said
society's–judicial layout ,
yelahanka ,Bangalore? while the ordinary
members like peons , clerks in judicial department are waiting for a site since
years , is not the whole thing grossly illegal ?
Q86. in more than 70% of cases before all courts inIndia, central government or state government or
government agency is one of the parties. How many judges or their family
members , have received out of turn , favourable allotments of sites , gas
agency , petrol pumps , etc by the government ? is not such allotments illegal
? what action ?
Q87. when a person under police custody or judicial custody suffer 3rddegree torture by police , is not the judge of the respective
court which is handling that tortured person's case responsible for it ?
Q88. has the higher judiciary legally prosecuted respective judges & the
police officers for committing 3rddegree torture , on
charges of attempt to murder & murder ? if not why ?
Q89. registrar ,Mysoredistrict &
sessions court , has called for the candidatures to various vacancies in that
court from the public vide notification no : ADMN/A/10825/2003 dated19/11/2003.
Please furnish me the merit ranking list of selected candidates along with my
merit ranking for the post of peon.
Q90. registrar ,Bangalorecity civil court , has
called for the candidatures to various vacancies in that court from the public
vide notification no : ADM-I(A)422/03 dated19/05/2003. Please
furnish me merit ranking list of selected candidates for the post of peon.
Q91. when a person doesn't get adequate food , medical care while under police
custody or judicial custody , is not the respective judge dealing that person's
case responsible for it ? what action ?
Q92. how judiciary is monitoring food & medical care to prisoners ?
Q93. numerous accussed persons are suffering in jail under judicial custody ,
for periods far exceeding the legally stipulated sentence periods. For example
: a pick-pocketer is in jail for one year , the judge finds him guilty of
offence & gives him 3 months sentence. What about the excess punishment of
9 months. Is not the judge responsible for the illegal , excess punishment of
the convict ? what action against the judge in such cases ?
Q94. numerous innocents suffer in jail for years & finally the judge finds
them as innocents & acquits them of the charges. What about the prison
sentence , the innocent has already served ? is not the judge responsible for
this illegal , unjust punishment to an innocent ? remedy ? what action against
the judge ?
Q95. does the privileges of judges cover both their official actions & the
actions arising out of misuse of office ?
Q96. does the privileges of judges cover both their official actions as judges
& their personal actions as individuals ?
Q97. are the fundamental rights of citizens supreme or the privileges of judges
, constitutional functionaries supreme ?
Q98. what is the criteria adopted for promotion of judges ?
Q99. what is the criteria adopted for appointment of advocates from bar , as
the judges ?
Q100. what is the criteria adopted for appointment of retired judges , as
governors of states , members or as chairman of commissions , etc ?
Q101. how many judges belonging to oppressed classes–scheduled caste , scheduled tribe , other
backward classes , minorities & women are their in supreme court , state
high courts & subordinate courts ? kindly provide specific figures .
Q102. what are the legal measures enforced by judiciary , to enforce the
accountability of judges & to check corruption in judiciary ?
Q103. are not these measures a failure , looking at present state of affairs of
judiciary ?
Q104. does the judges arrange for distribution of alchoholic drinks at the official
meetings , parties , at the tax payer's expense ?
Q105. does any judges have included their consumption of alchoholic drinks , in
their hotel bill & claimed traveling allowance ?
Q106. what action has been taken against–selectors ie Karnataka high court judges & newly selected
women judges involved in roost resort scandal in Mysore , Karnataka ?
Q107. when common people / tax payers & even government employees are not
getting proper health care from government at government hospitals. Is it right
& just to provide premium health care to judges , constitutional
functionaries at 5-star private hospitals inIndia, abroad , all at tax payer's expense ?
Q108. are the judges subjected to periodical health check-ups to ascertain
their health , mental faculties & mental balance in the midst of all work
pressures , emotional tensions ?
Q109. what is the criteria adopted by judiciary for accepting applications
seeking public interest litigations ?
Q110. why numerous appeals for PIL by me , were not considered ?
Q111. what is the criteria adopted by judiciary , for appointing "amicus
curie" in a case ?
Q112. why my appeal to honourable supreme court , to make me as an "amicus
curie" in late P.M Rajiv Gandhi's assassination case , was not considered
by the court ?
Q113. what is the criteria adopted by judiciary , for initiating suo-motto
action ?
Q114. numerous cases of injustices are reported in the media daily , with
supporting evidences . why not the judiciary take suo-motto action in all such
cases ?
Q115. legal aid boards pre-judge the cases in the name of taking legal opinion
, before providing legal aid to the needy ? is it not needy person's rights
violation ?
Q116. is not the safety of witnesses , parties in cases responsibility of the
court , both during hearing of the case & afterwards ?
Q117. is the use of 3rddegree torture by
police on prisoners , during the police custody / judicial custody / prison
sentence right ? what action ?
Q118. when the corrupt police officer & government prosecution advocate together
cover-up evidences , conducts improper investigation intentionally to fail the
case–to cover-up rich
crooks , high & mighty people , what action judge takes in such cases ?
Q119. how does the judiciary monitor the wealth growth of police , government
advoctes , tax officials , officials of licensing authorities , to ensure
proper & fair prosecution of cases against rich & mighty ?
Q120. what are the status of appeals made by human rights activist NAGARAJ.M.R.
to the honourable supreme court of India ?
Q121. corruption is rampant for selection of officers to quasi-judicial
positions like district / taluk magistrates , tax officers , revenue officers ,
land acquisition officers , etc. how the judiciary monitors over their
quasi-judicial actions ?
Q122. subject to conditions , I , NAGARAJ.M.R. , editor , e-voice of human
rights watch , do offer my free services to honourable supreme court of India ,
to apprehend corrupt judges , are you–the honourable court ready to utilize it ?
Q123. what are the status of my appeals , sent to the honourable supreme court
of India , through government of india's on-line grievance system ( DPG &
DARPG ) :
DPG/M/2006/80008 , DARPG/E/2006/00057, DARPG/E/2006/00225 , DPG/M/2006/80021 ,
DARPG/E/2006/00253 , DPG/M/2006/80032 , DARPG/E/2006/01149 , DPG/M/2006/80047 ,
DARPG/E/2006/01164 , DPG/M/2006/80043 , DPG/M/2006/80085 , DARPG/E/2006/06704 ,
DARPG/E/2006/07017 , DARPG/E/2006/07018 , DPG/M/2006/80159 , DPG/M/2006/80162 ,
DARPG/E/2006/07864 , DPG/M/2006/80165 , DARPG/E/2006/07877 , DPG/M/2006/80167 ,
DARPG/E/2006/08028 , DARPG/E/2006/08029 , DARPG/E/2006/08032 ,
DARPG/E/2006/08043 , DARPG/E/2006/08044 , DPG/M/2006/80174 , DPG/M/2006/80193 ,
DARPG/E/2007/00044 , DPG/M/2007/80003 , DPG/M/2007/80010 , DARPG/E/2007/00164 ,
DARPG/E/2007/00165 , DPG/M/2007/80014 , DPG/M/2007/80025 , DPG/M/2007/80049 ,
DPG/M/2007/80055 , DPG/M/2007/80056 , DPG/M/2007/80078 , DPG/M/2007/80082 ,
DARPG/E/2007/02618
Q124. the appeals made to the honourable supreme court of India , copies of
which are available at following web pageshttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/naghrw/message/182,http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naghrw/message/206,http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naghrw/message/208,http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naghrw/message/212,http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naghrw/message/209,http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naghrw
what are the status of those appeals ?
Q125. in the media , we have seen reports about judges committing crimes–rape , attempt to murder , swindling
government money , untouchability practice , the disrespect to national flag ,
sale of judicial orders , bail , receipt of monetary gains by way of royalty
for books , prime real estate purchase at discounted rate , taking round about
long foreign tours along with family in the name of official work , etc. by
this way , judges themselves are making contempt of court , constitution of India
& citizens of India. How you are protecting the honour of the judiciary ,
constitution ofIndia& citizens ofIndia? please answer.
Q126. Is the government giving any facilities / affirmative actions to
policemen's family as being given to defense personnel , ex-servicemen &
their families , like preferential site allotment , lpg agency , ration depot ,
reservation in college admission , soft bank loans , etc ?
Q126. if not , why ? after all , the contribution of police to national
security is on par with defense forces.
Q127. is not some high police officials addressing their subordinates in
singular term , abusing them with vulgar words wrong ?
Q128. is not some police personnel calling public with singular term, abusing
public with vulgar words wrong ?
Q129. is it not the duty of prison authorities to protect the health, lives of
prison in-mates ?
Q130.what action is taken against police personnel who wrongly charged an
innocent person of criminal acts , resulting in his confinement in jail ,
finally acquitted by court as found to be innocent ?
Q131. is it not right to with hold salary , gratuity , pension to such guilty
police personnel & pay it as compensation to victims of police failures
& atrocities ?
Q132. does our Indian constitution legally permit a citizen of foreign origin
naturalized by marriage to an Indian or naturalized by option , to occupy any
constitutional office ?
Q133. during british rule inindia& various other
british colonies , criminal cases were foisted against our freedom fighters inIndia& other british colonies. Afterindia's independence what happened to those cases ? did our
Indian government close all such cases or did it continue with the prosecution
?
Q134. in how many cases GOI & other state government continued with the
prosecution AGAINST OUR FREEDOM FIGHTERS ? why ?
Q135. what about the status of cases against shri.netaji subash Chandra bose ?
Q136. has GOI deported any freedom fighters toBritainor it's colonies , to face prosecution afterIndiagained independence ? HAS GOI RECEIVED ANY REQUEST FROMBRITAINTO THAT EFFECT ? if yes , why , whom ?
Q.137. the honourable supreme court of India failed provide information to me
as per my RTI request appeal no : 91 / 2007 in response to your letter no : F1
/ RTI / A.91 / 2007 dt 13.12.07 , why ?
Q138 . the honourable union home secretary failed to give me information as per
my rti request , he transferred my application to others , in turn they
transferred the application to some others. Finally , complete truthful
information was not given , why ? as the union home secretary has got copies of
all those replies in response to transferred RTI application , will he send me
a consolidated reply to my present RTI request ?
Q139. in a high profile case before the honourable delhi high court , we have
seen how defense advocate mr. R.S.ANAND & prosecution advocate mr. I.U.KHAN
made a secret pact to win the case in favour of rich criminal , totally
manipulating prosecution witnesses , evidences & prosecution stand ,
totally making mockery of justice system . how you are ensuring the delivery of
justice , there being numerous such advocates in practice ?
Q140. Smt. Sonia Gandhi is person of foreign origin , she wields enormous clout
more than the Prime Minister himself over the government ofIndiabeing the chair person of UPA. Is she legally
permitted to summon confidential official records , minutes of the cabinet , to
hold the cabinet meeting of union ministers ?
Q141. As per law , is she permitted to hold constitutional offices like prime
minister ofIndiaor president ofIndia, etc ?
Q.142. What are the fundamental rights of a citizen guaranteed under the
constitution (Article 21) ?

Q143. What are the privileges conferred on legislators & parliamentarians
by the constitution ofIndia?

a) Inside the House b) Outside the House

Q144. What are privileges conferred on constitutional functionaries, like

Q148. Are the liberty & fundamental rights of the citizens guaranteed by
the constitution, above the privileges of the constitutional functionaries or
equal or below ?

Q149. Can the Indian legislatures & parliament be equated to the House of
commons inEnglandwhich is considered to be a superior
court and court of records ?

Q150. Can the division of powers, namely the legislature, the executive and the
Judiciary, be equated to the functioning of the House of commons and House of
Lords inEngland?

Q151. Can a citizen be said to have committed breach of privilege of the House
or court and causing contempt of the house or court by raising the issues of
accountability of constitutional functionaries ?

Q152. Can a Legislature or Parliament enact a new law, to circumvent or to
nullify the Judicial orders with respect to wrongdoings by peoples
representatives & executive ? does not it amount to infringement of
Judicial powers & contempt of the court by the House.

Q153. Are the FUNDAMENTAL DUTIES of a citizen more important than
constitutional duties of a constitutional functionary or equal in importance to
it ?

Q154. Can a constitutional functionary commit crimes, anti-national activities
in the name of constitutional duties, behind the legal veil of official's
secret act & go unaccountable for his actions and go unpunished by his
legal immunity privileges

Q155. Are the Legislators members of parliament, High court & Supreme court
Judges and other constitutional functionaries not willing to codify their
privileges for the reason that if codified their privileges would be curtailed
and their action would be subjected to legal scrutiny. ?

Q156. By votes of citizens Legislators and parliamentarians get seats in the
legislature and Parliament out of tax payer's money, they get their pay, perks
& lead 5-Star luxurious lifestyles. Hence whether a vote of a citizen is
above (More valid) or a seat of legislator or parliamentarian is above or more
valid in a democracy ?

Q157. Judges & Constitutional functionaries are indirectly appointed by
voters / tax payers. Out of tax payers money, they get their pay, perks &
lead 5-star luxurious lifestyles. Hence, whether the vote of a citizen,
fundamental duties of a tax payer is above (more valid) or a seat of judge /
constitutional functionary is above (more
valid) in a democracy ?

Q158. If there is a vacuum in the Legislature or parliament, who is to fill up
that vacuum till such time that the legislature or parliament acts provide a
solution by performing its role by enacting proper legislation to cover the
field (vacuum) ?

Q159. While it is an unhealthy practice for a Judge to claim to be a Judge in
his own cause, is it not worse for the members of the legislature and
parliament to be judges in their own cause ?

Q160. Are the Technicalities of the case more important to a judge or Justice
to a citizen, protection of fundamental rights of citizen.?

Q162. Why not the Judges admit various cases of Injustices affecting public, as
the Public Interest Litigation" ? In some cases, the Public or the person
representing them is unable to afford the high cost of the case. Why not free
legal aid is given ?.

Q163. What is the criteria for admitting a P.I.L. & giving free legal aid ?

Q164. Communication - free flow of information is the lifeline of a democracy.
Why the constitutional functionaries are not honouring the Right to Information
of Citizens ?
Q165. Recently , while assuming office as honourable chief justice of Karnataka
, justice. P.D.DINAKAR , gave a blanket withdrawal of all internal departmental
enquiries against approximately 200 judges , is it just & legal ? give me
the names of accused judges & description of charges against them ?
Q166. does it not show that judges are more equal than others ?
Q167. who are involved in PF scam ? what action against guilty judges ?
Q168. Why you did not give information to me as per RTI Act inspite of appeal ?
refer. F1/RTI/A91/2007.
Q169. Almost a year ago , in the Karnataka state new chief justice of Karnataka
high court honble Mr.Dinakar (now elevated to supreme court ofIndia) just on assuming offices within hours scrapped
disciplinary inquiry proceedings against 200+ erring judges. In such a short
time no human being can study all the cases in detail , then how come he
arrived at this vital decision in such short time? Who are those 200+ judges
facing enquiry ?
Q170 .Recently in the Karnataka state , high court found out that a district
judge without conducting hearings properly , entering fictious dates of
hearings (which happens to be government holidays ) facilitated in exonerating
a top politician . has the court enquired into the previous judgements of the
accussed judge ? did it find any wrongdoings?
Q171. As per law , while on duty a person should not be drunk , under the
influence of alchohol , as it limits the functioning of his senses & brain.
That is why the acts & sayings of drunkards , committed / said when they
are drunk are not taken seriously. However most of the police officers after
evening hours are drunk , in that state only they apprehend many suspects &
produce those suspects at the residences of magistrates before magistrate
during wee hours / night. Some of of the judges are also drunk during that
time. Does the senses of drunken police & judges work properly to do their
respective duties in identifying criminals , apprehending them & to issue
judicial orders. Are these actions of police & judges in drunken state
legal ?

Q 172 . What action has been taken inbhopalgas leak case against the guilty police
officials who changed the charge sheet against union carbide officials ?

Q 173 . What action has been taken against guilty police officials , district
magistrate , state ministers & central ministers who fully aided the
criminals – Union Carbide official Mr. Anderson to
escape law , to jump bail & flee the country without court’s
permission ?

Q 174 . What action has been taken against the above said guilty with respect
to their contempt of court & for aiding a criminal to escape ?

Q 175. What action has been taken against the chief justice ofIndia, who changed the legal clause under which the
guilty should be tried ? what action has been taken against the CJI
who became an official of the trust belonging to the criminal ?

Q 176 . What action has been taken against the Indian Public servant who
decided to withdraw cases from US Courts with respect toBhopalgas tragedy ?

Q 177 . What action has been taken against the state labour department &
pollution control board officials who have failed in their duties , inspite of
earlier warnings by journalists ?

Q 178 . What action has been taken against state cabinet ministers who decided
the quantum of compensation money to favour the criminal although they don’t
have right to do so ?

Q 179 . What action has been taken against Presiding Judge of the trial court ,
Chief Justice of India , state police officials , public prosecutors &
Central Bureau of Investigation officials who kept quite all along and didn’t press for the extradition of the criminal Mr.Anderson , for producing the criminal accussed no.1 before the trial court ?

Q 180 . Is it not SHAMEFUL for the judiciary , police , government officials
& people’s representatives who became part of Operation Crime Hush Up &
aided criminals responsible for ghastly murders of thousands & maiming of lakhs of hapless public in Bhopal
Gas Leak Tragedy?

Q 181 . Are these Corrupt Police , corrupt judges , corrupt ministers , corrupt labour / pollution control board officials HUMAN BEINGS ?
Q 182 Why police are not registering my
complaint against CJI & other VVIPS
,Even after years ?
Q 183
don’t the police of vijayanagar police stationmysorehave legal jurisdiction to register the case against these VVIPs ?
or just because the criminals
happens to be VVIPs ,they are not booked by police? If the said police don’t have legal jurisdiction to book these VVIPs , they
should have transferred the complaint to those authorities who have jurisdiction &authority to book & prosecute these VVIPs , but not done so , why ?
Q 184 are not all these
actions , of VVIPs & police amounting to cover up of crimes & criminals ? are not these cover ups itself is a crime ?
Q 185. Even an appeal for
justice by post card must be treated as PIL by courts of justice . however my
appeals for justice concerning public
welfare , national security sent through post , e-mail to supreme court of india are not admitted as
Public interest litigation , why ? does not these acts of Supreme court amount to aiding criminals ,
anti nationals?
Q 186 Are not the honourable chief
justice of india together with the
jurisdictional police & Revenue district magistrate responsible to protect the fundamental & human rights of people ? why the CJI ,MysoreDC& Jurisdictional Police have failed to
protect the fundamental & human rights of people including mine ? For all the previous injustices I have
suffered at the hands of the criminal nexus Honourable CJI ,
Mysore revenue district magistrate & jurisdictional police are together responsible , if anything untoward
happens to me or to my family members or to my dependents the quartet – Honourable Chief Justice of India , Honourable District
Magistrate , Mysore , Honourable Police Commissioner of Mysore city &
Circle Inspector of police , vijayanagar police station , mysore will be responsible .

These corrupt parasites will feel , understand the pain only when they also suffer in the same
manner. Let us pray to almighty – In whose Court of justice MATCH FIXING is not
there & every body is equal , let us pray to that god to give these corrupt
parasites ghastly deaths nothing less nothing more.

When a responsible Indian citizen volunteered to appear before the
supreme court of india as an amicus curie , to give certain information before
the court relating to this assassination , he was not at all permitted. Instead
he was threatened , attempts made to murder him , his news paper was closed ,
his jobs were illegally snatched away , police & investigating agencies
repeatedly grilled him , THE PURPOSE IS TO SILENCE THAT PERSON . The
Police failed to act upon his complaints. The Supreme Court of India Failed to
admit his PIL Petitions. ALL TO COVER UP THE POWERS THAT BE .

who are covering-up late
p.m. rajiv gandhi assassination case? who are those conspirators? who are
trying to silence me?

My sufferings began hand in hand with my crusade. I have raised various issues
of social concern from time to time at the appropriate levels, one of those is
LATE P.M. RAJIV GANDHI ASASSINATION CASE. where-in only the tools of the
conspirator's were punished where as the conspirators are roaming free. i have
raised this topic of inequity , travesty of justice and sought a fair, proper
enquiry& trial , at various forums. but to no avail.
the conspirators were disturbed by this and tried to silence me by threatening
me, physically assaulting me and even made attempts to murder me. they
prevented me from appearing before the JAIN COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY. they even
manipulated the recruitment systems to deny me the appointments in
R.B.I.CURRENCY NOTE PRESS MYSORE, P.E.S. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING MANDYA, N.I.E
MYSORE , District Court Mysore & Illegally snatched away my job in RPG
Cables Ltd , Mysore . they even tried to silence me by
forcibly closing down my newspaper publications THE TESTUDO & VOICE OF
CRUSADER.
my appeals for justice resulted only in police enquiries. the central
intelligence bureau(I.B.) state intelligence & state police personnel
enquired me exhaustively number of times, but they never did enquire the powers
that be. any way these people don't have practical powers to enquire such
people. the highest constitutional functionaries who can order a proper
enquiry, trial are keeping mum inspite of repeated appeals. probably they are
acting under the directions of conspirators. thereby they are not only covering
up the crime, they are actively sponsoring terrorism , but are also violating
my fundamental/human rights & obstructing me from performing my fundamental
duties as a citizen of india.

hereby , i do request you to protect my fundamental & human rights and to
facilitate me to perform my FUNDAMENTAL DUTIES as a citizen of india.also, i do
request you to give me information about following cases ,it's final
reports& it's action taken report.
1.the roost resort scandal involving karnataka high court judges.
2.the scam of gem cutting & polishing units in mysore set-up under VISHWA
self-employment scheme.
3.the murder of under-trial,TADA detenue mr.arjunan(forest brigand veerappan's
brother).
4.the murder of journalist mr.satyanarayan near mysore.
5.the murder of ex-minister mr.nagappa near mysore.
6.the amount of ransom paid by state governments of karnataka,tamilnadu &
the union govrnment and the general public to forest brigand veerappan during
all kidnap episodes (including movie star rajkumar's).the role played by
facilitators.the contents of all cassettes sent by veerappan to governments
& vice versa.
7.the final report of justice a.j. sadashivas's committee which enquired into
atrocities & human rights violations committed by police,special task
force(S.T.F.) on the innocent tribal people of M.M.HILLS.
8.the report of past district magistrate of mysore mr.T.M.vijayabhaskar about
the land scam in & around mysore.
9.even in developed countrise like U.S.A. & U.K. mal-handling of
radio-active materials takes place now & then, which in itself constitute
nuclear disasters on small scale.refer the DECCAN HERALD (12/10/03
to18/10/03).in india how many cases of mal-handling of radio-active materials
have taken place? no public knowledge.in the back drop of
corrupt,negligent,hush-hush,buck passing work culture in most of the government
service in india, i do want to know how safe are we the mysoreans from the
processing & storage of radio-active materials at M/S RARE EARTH MATERIALS
PLANT,yelwal,mysore? in the past there were media reports about damages caused
to the human beings ,the environment by the same organisation M/S R.E.M.P.
& it's sister concern M/S URANIUM CORPORATION OF INDIA LIMITED(U.C.I.L.) at
kerala state & at jadaguda ,orissa state respectively.even some of the
insurance companies like M/S.metlife india insurance co.,don't cover the risk
of health damages ,death due to nuclear hazards.in such an event who will bear
the cost of compensation?how the quantum of compensation is calculated?give me information
about the safety measures taken by M/S. R,E,M.P.mysore & the compensation
pay sructure and the safety measures being followed by all agencies dealing
with radio-active materials.

The LTTE suicide squad did plan and
eliminate Rajiv Gandhi. But, why did the LTTE do it? Was there a larger
conspiracy that extended beyond the LTTE as the strike force?

Was the LTTE the author of the crime
or the mercenary for some one else or for some purpose that yielded some
benefit to it? These questions persisted even after the actual assassins were
brought to book.

The Narasimha Rao government
appointed the Jain Commission to go into the conspiracy angle to the murder.In
its interim report the commission did exceedingly good work to bring on record
evidence about the political forces involved in promoting the LTTE in Tamil
Nadu that made the crime possible.

Yet it made a mockery of its main
work, the conspiracy angle. It floated dubious and wild theories, involving
Mossad! CIA! Besides adding confusion, it ended up trivialising a very serious
exercise. This also robbed the commission of its credibility.

As the commission’s final report
proved a flop, the Vajpayee government appointed a Multi- Disciplinary
Monitoring Agency (MDMA) in 1998 to unearth the conspiracy angle.

But the person who
first demanded, but, ultimately made, investigation into the conspiracy to
murder Rajiv Gandhi irrelevant was none other than his widow Sonia Gandhi.

Her attitude to the
investigation and suspected actors in the murder dramatically changed. Her
conduct in 1997 when she was working to enter active politics was a stark
contrast to her attitude after taking over the congress leadership on the Jain
Commission issue.

In 1997, she demanded that the DMK
which, the Jain commission had said, was part of the conspiracy, be sacked as a
partner of the UF alliance and pulled down the government when the demand was
not met. Her party insisted the entire facts about the conspiracy be
investigated and revealed.

Addressing a meeting at Amethi,
Sonia hinted that the DMK was a fan of the LTTE and charged that those who
doubted the Jain commission report were diverting the attention from the
investigation into the conspiracy to murder Rajiv and demanded that the probe
be completed expeditiously (Indian Express 2.2.1998).

But, once she took over
the party leadership, she not only ceased to evince any interest in pursuing
the Rajiv Gandhi murder conspiracy, but also began allying with the alleged
conspirators themselves.

The developments, put together,
reveal a shocking picture.The year after taking over the Congress, Sonia Gandhi
makes a secret move.

In the year 1999, she told
then President Dr K R Narayanan privately that ‘neither she nor her son and
daughter wanted any of the four convicts’ sentenced to death for Rajiv’s
assassination ‘to be hanged’, and pleaded that no child should be orphaned by
an act of the State.

Noted the Indian Express
(Nov 20, 1999) that before her plea for mercy to the Rajiv killers the Congress
party was the leading opponent of mercy to them. This silenced the party once
and for all.

What transpired at her private
meeting with the President was revealed not by Sonia, but by Mohini Giri (the
former chairperson of the National Women’s Commission) and on that basis
Nalini’s death sentence was commuted to life. (Frontline Nov 5-18, 2005).

Then, in February 2004,
there were reports, editorially commented by the Island newspaper in Colombo on
Feb 20, 2004, that Eduardo Faleiro, her emissary, had a secret meeting with the
LTTE chief Prabhakaran at Killinochi. Island had also referred to reports that Sonia’s
mother Ms Paula Maino had met Anton Balasingham, LTTE’s point man in
London, in connection with the electoral alliance between the DMK and the
Congress. While Eduardo Faleiro at least made a feeble attempt to deny the
meeting, Paulo Maino would not even deny that.Third, the Paulo Maino meeting preceded, and the Faleiro meeting
succeeded, the unbelievable U-turn of Sonia Gandhi to forge alliance with the
DMK which was accused by her own party in 1997 of being part of the conspiracy
to murder her husband. The DMK-Congress alliance seems to
have been agreed upon sometime in December 2003. In January 2004, Sonia met the
DMK chief and concretised the alliance.

The coming together of one
of the alleged conspirators and the victim of the conspiracy made a mockery of
any further investigation into Rajiv Gandhi murder.

For the last four years
there is not a single word spoken by Sonia on pursuing the Rajiv Gandhi
murderers and on unearthing the conspiracy or for the extradition of
Prabhakaran or Pottu Amman.

This is despite the fact
that, when, on April 10, 2002, Prabhakaran met the press at Killinochi, he did
not even deny that LTTE was involved in Rajiv assassination.

Fourth, the LTTE too
responded favourably to signals from Sonia that she was not against LTTE.

On January 27, 2006, Anton
Balasingham, told an Indian TV news channel that the Rajiv killing was
‘monumental tragedy’ and asked the people of India to be ‘magnanimous to put
the past behind’ and deal with the LTTE.

Fifth, Sonia did not
object to the inclusion of the DMK woman MP in whose house Sivarasan the main
killer of Rajiv Gandhi had stayed for which she was detained under the TADA, as
a minister in the UPA government.

Sixth, the MDMA which was
appointed by the NDA government after Sonia rejected the Action Taken Report on
the Jain Commission, has virtually become defunct under the UPA regime.

Since 2004, she has not uttered a
single word asking what the MDMA is doing.

And finally now in March
2008, Priyanka Vadra, Sonia’s daughter makes a secret visit to Vellore jail and
meets the first accused in the murder of Rajiv, for over an hour.

Media reports say that they
sat by each other’s side, cried and professed goodwill towards each other! No
one knows what transpired between them. The meeting clearly illegal, looks
almost a conspiracy, would have remained a secret had the media not exposed it.

Priyanka said that neither Sonia nor
Rahul or Priyanka believe in hate or anger, and that the visit was her way of
coming to terms with the Rajiv Gandhi murder.

Moral high ground seems to
be a cover for undisclosed political strategies. But where was this high moral ground
when Sonia angrily pulled down the UF government on the ground that DMK, a
suspected co-conspirator with LTTE, was part of the alliance?

Is Rajiv Gandhi’s
assassination a personal affair between the Sonia Gandhi family and the LTTE
for the former to punish or pardon the latter?

LTTE has neither confessed nor
regretted its action for the Gandhis to pardon. The LTTE is even today
unrepenting.

The prosecution case is
that the LTTE supremo decided to avenge Rajiv Gandhi for sending IPKF to Sri
Lanka and betraying the LTTE. But that was no personal decision of Rajiv
Gandhi. The assassination was an act against the state of India.

This is how it should be
seen and pursued. Neither Sonia nor Priyanka nor the Congress has the right to
pardon the criminals who have challenged the sovereignty of India.

The French Intelligence Agencies as
per a regular routine Intelligence Drill, keep under heavily Intelligence
Surveillance all the activities of all the Foreigners in all the Five Star
Hotels.politicsparty.com has learnt from highly placed sources that, “In the
course of the routine surveillance the Intelligence Agencies of France have in
their possession On Camera Footage of a now Highly Classified Recording of a
Secret Meeting at a Paris Five Star Hotel in 1991.”The L.T.T.E was fighting
through the use of Terrorism for the separation of the Tamil portion of the
country from Sri Lanka. Rajiv Gandhi as Prime Minister had sent the Indian Army
to Sri Lanka to assist the Government forces there to fight and destroy the
L.T.T.E. The Indian Army was finally withdrawn from Sri Lanka without achieving
success. Rajiv thus became an enemy of the L.T.T.E.Rajiv lost power in 1989 Lok
Sabha Elections.In 1991, Rajiv Gandhi was the Congress President, Chandrashekar
was the Prime Minister.The Lok Sabha Elections were announced after Rajiv
withdrew the Congress support to the Chandrashekar Government.The L.T.T.E.
Chief had sent two L.T.T.E delegations to New Delhi in 1991, to meet and
discuss with Rajiv Gandhi, to understand his attitude towards the L.T.T.E.
After these meetings the L.T.T.E. Chief was not convinced that Rajiv would be
soft on the L.T.T.E. In fact Prabhakaran expected Rajiv to be hostile to the
L.T.T.E.In the 1991 Elections Rajiv was not expected to come back to power.
However the L.T.T.E. did not want the risk of allowing Rajiv to come to
power.Rajiv Gandhi and his Congress won a massive victory in 1984 because of
the nationwide sympathy generated by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s
Assassination by her Sikh Bodyguards. Rajiv’s Congress won 414 Lok Sabha MPs.
Rajiv looked like being Prime Minister forever.However, Rajiv got in to a
serious Credibility Problem when the HDW Submarine Deal Broke. Rajiv threw out
the then Defence Minister V.P.Singh from the Party. Rajiv’s Coterie made a
loyal V.P.Singh an enemy of Rajiv.Thereafter the Bofors Gun Deal Scam tumbled
out of the Swedish Closet. Rajiv handled the Bofors Scam horribly. Rajiv’s
former aides manipulated to destroy Rajiv and Rajiv’s Politics. Rajiv lost
complete credibility. Rajiv’s Congress won 195 MPs but lost the Lok Sabha
Elections and the Central Government in 1989. The V.P.Singh Government came to
power and demonstrated quickness in getting the Bofors Pay Offs in Foreign Bank
Accounts Sealed.The Bofors Money Trail led directly to the Italian Wheeler-Dealer
Ottavio Quattrocchi.Quattrocchi realized that India’s Opposition Politicians
and Anti-Congress Governments in their passion to expose Rajiv would chase the
Bofors Scam and all its beneficiaries. However, in that process the involvement
of Quattrocchi would be completely exposed. Quatrocchi believed that Rajiv and
his Congress were not winning the 1991 Elections. The Third Front Government of
V.P.Singh was expected to win. The V.P. Singh Government would accelerate
investigation in to the Bofors Scam. Quattrocchi’s role in the Bofors Scam
would be completely exposed thus leading to the jailing of
Quattrocchi.Quattrocchi panicked. There was only one way for Quattrocchi to
survive. The Bofors scam must be buried. The Bofors Enquiry cannot be stopped
if Rajiv was Alive. If Rajiv was not there then the Political System would lose
interest in the Bofors Scam. So to bury the Bofors Scam Burying Rajiv was a
necessity for Quattrocchi. Only then could Quattrocchi happily survive and
enjoy the millions looted from India’s Public Exchequer.Anton Balasingham was
the Principal Adviser, Most Trusted Lieutenant, Globe Trotting Apex Negotiator,
Vital Deal Maker, Super Strategist, Spokesman and Personal Friend of the Chief
of the L.T.T.E. Velupillai Prabhakaran.Sources say that, “Quattrocchi got in
touch with the L.T.T.E. The meeting with the L.T.T.E. was fixed in a Five Star
Hotel in Paris.Ottavio Quattrocchi and Anton Balasingham met. Quattrocchi
convinced Balasingham that Rajiv’s death was vital to both. If Rajiv were dead
then the Bofors Scam would die. If Rajiv was dead then the L.T.T.E. could be
confident that the Indian Army will not go to Sri Lanka to destroy the L.T.T.E.
Quattrocchi handed over Bags of Dollars to Balasingham as payment for Rajiv’s
Assassination.The entire meeting and conversation between Ottavio Quattrocchi
and Anton Balasingham was Recorded by the French Intelligence Agencies.”On the
day of his Assassination Rajiv Gandhi was in Vishakapatnam. Rajiv was
campaigning for his fond candidate Uma Gajapati Raju. Rajiv was enjoying the
campaigning. Rajiv was in no mood to leave Vishakapatnam, on that evening.A
Trio of Congress Busybodies including P.V.Narasimha Rao made frantic Phone
Calls from New Delhi urging Rajiv to leave Vishakapatnam and fly to Chennai.
Rajiv keen on spending the night at Vishakapatnam, tried avoiding to go to
Chennai. Rajiv made an excuse that his aircraft was not in perfect order. The
Congress Busybodies of Delhi got the Aircraft speedily checked, repaired and
told Rajiv that it was ready. The Congress Busybodies forced a
reluctant-to-leave-Vishakapatnam Rajiv, to fly from Vishakapatnam to Chennai
enroute to Sriperumbudur in Tamilnadu.Rajiv flew to Chennai and went by road to
Sriperumbudur. As soon as the cavalcade of cars of Rajiv and the Tamilnadu
State leaders accompanying Rajiv reached Sriperumbudur, Rajiv got out of the
car and walked through the crowd to the Dias.When any national leader visits
any part of the country then the moment the leader gets down from the Aircraft,
the entire State Leadership of his Party surrounds him. The State Leaders stick
to him through out the Visit until he gets back in to the Airport. If a
Photograph is taken at any given minute of the visit, the Photo will contain
the National Leader and the Top State Leaders. Whether it is Vajpayee, Advani,
Rajnath Singh, Sonia or any national leader the scenario is the same. Every
Photo Frame will consist of the National leader being surrounded by State
Leaders.When Rajiv alighted at Sriperumbudur all the state Leaders were there.
However, each of the Tamilnadu State Leaders suddenly decided to keep away from
Rajiv. From the car, Rajiv walked through the crowd unaccompanied by any State
Leader.So, when the Human Bomb Exploded, Rajiv was Blown to pieces, but not a
single Tamilnadu State Leader Died with him. G.K.Moopanar, P.Chidambaram,
Maragatham Chandrashekar and several Other Tamilnadu state Leaders did not walk
with Rajiv. Strange and Impossible. But the Tamilnadu State leaders allowed
Rajiv to walk the Death-Walk Alone.In the Final Photo Frame of Rajiv Gandhi, no
Tamilnadu State leader was present with Rajiv. Were all these State Leaders
aware that Rajiv would be killed and hence kept away from Rajiv to save their
lives?The Investigation in to the Rajiv Assassination has not interrogated or
put on the Lie Detector Test and the Narco-Analysis Test the Congress Bigwigs
who insisted that Rajiv must leave Vishakapatnam and go to Tamilnadu, that
Assassination night. Why?Similarly the Investgation did not interrogate and
subject to a Lie Detector and a Narco Analysis Test the Tamilnadu Congress
State Leaders who deserted Rajiv immediately after he got out of the car at
Sriperumbudur. Why?Intelligence Agencies Sources say that the International
Arms Dealer Adnan Kashogi provided the Bomb Belt worn by the L.T.T.E.’s suicide
Human Bomb to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi. India’s Investigation never pursued
this lead. Why?Later P.V.Narasimha Rao’s son Prabhakar Rao and Adnan Kashogi’s
Son were involved in a UREA SCAM. The Government of India in Dollars issued 125
crores even before the Urea arrived in India. Till today the Urea has not
arrived. The 125 Crores has not been recovered from Narasimha Rao’s Son. Now
the Manmohan Singh Government has allowed the Crores of Rupees in the Swiss
Banks to be defreezed. Narasimha Rao deserved to be in jail for corruption but
Manmohan calls him a Saint.India’s Investigation in to the Rajiv Assassination
has not investigated P.V.Narasimha Rao and Adnan Kashoggi’s Family to ascertain
the facts and complicity, if any, in the Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
Why?Ottavio Quattrocchi was the Mastermind in the Conspiracy to Assassinate
Rajiv Gandhi. But Quattrocchi was never investigated. Why?The Intelligence
Agencies of France, Israel and the United States of America have Highly
Classified Secret Data pertaining to all the details of the Rajiv Gandhi
Assassination.Israel, France and US are all Democracies. All three nations are
closely involved with India in the International war against terrorism. It is their
responsibility to provide India with every bit of evidence and information that
they and their Intelligence agencies possess about the Assassination of R ajiv
Gandhi.So far these Nations have not given India any information because the
government of India has not requested them. The moment India requests these
countries then they will give to India, all the information they
have.Politicsparty.com Requests the Parliament of India to ensure that the
Government of India obtains all the information pertaining to the Assassination
of Rajiv Gandhi available with the Intelligence Agencies of France, Israel and
the US and discloses all the information to India’s
Parliament.politicsparty.com Requests the Parliament of India to ensure that an
investigation is ordered in to the Role of Ottavio Quattrocchi in the
Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.Quattrocchi must be arrested, brought to India
put on a Lie Detector Test and a Narco-Analysis Test and Questioned about his
Role in the Conspiracy to Assassinate Rajiv Gandhi.politicsparty.com expects
India’s Parliament to do justice to one of its Assassinated Member of
Parliament Rajiv Gandhi.President of India Kalam is now in France. The
Government of India must request President Kalam to request the French
President to make available to India the Tapes of the Secret Meeting in the
Paris Hotel and all other information involving the Assassination of Rajiv
Gandhi.The People of India must know the truth about the Assassination of Rajiv
and the Conspirators must be arrested, prosecuted and given the Death Sentence.
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India’s Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
party (DMK) and its leader Karunanidhi who is the chief minister of Tamil
Nadu came in for strong criticism in the interim report of a retired judge
who probed the circumstances leading to the killing in 1991 by an LTTE female
suicide bomber. Indian officials blamed the killing on Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger
terrorists, who the judge said had received support in the past from the DMK.

In 1976, Gandhi's federal government
dismissed Karunanidhi's government, which was accused of corruption. A year
later, MGR won local elections and sent Karunanidhi into political wilderness
until MGR's death in 1987.

After a year of direct rule by the
federal government, the DMK party regained power in Tamil Nadu in 1989. Two
years later the federal government dismissed Karunanidhi for a second time,
accusing him of not doing enough to crack down on the Tamil Tigers in his
state.

Further, the Commission said, the
LTTE was getting its supplies, including arms, ammunition, explosives, fuel and
other essential items from Tamil Nadu to continue its fight against the IPKF
that too with the support of the DMK Government, State Administration and
connivance of the law enforcement agencies.

The report said that soon after the
DMK Government took over the reins of power in Tamil Nadu, "the LTTE
slowly began to consolidate itself in the State and their clandestine activities,
heretofore dormant, became more and more pronounced. All the activities of the
LTTE at this stage towards resource mobilisation, propaganda and treatment of
their wounded cadres, had taken an anti-national dimension.''

The Commission noted the visit of
the then DMK MP, Mr. V. Gopalaswamy, MP (DMK) to Northern Sri Lanka and his
reported meeting with Prabhakaran between February 8, 1989, and March 3, 1989.

"This visit by Mr. V.
Gopalaswamy, and the manner in which this entire episode was dealt with by the
DMK party sent clear signals to the pro-LTTE anti-IPKF elements in the State as
well as LTTE itself that the newly-elected Government would not resort to any
drastic action against such elements; on the other hand, the impression that
the entire episode created was that pro-LTTE gestures, even if they were
illegal, would be tolerated by the Government.''

The Commission's report said the
then Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, was keen that "some satisfactory
solution be arrived at with the LTTE so that the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord could
be implemented in letter and spirit. He discussed this concern with Mr.
Karunanidhi and sought his assistance.'' After Mr. V. P. Singh became the Prime
Minister on December 2, 1989, it was spelt out that if no solution came, India
would no longer give any military or monetary help to any of the groups, nor
allow its mainland to be used for militant activities. "The LTTE remained
adamant during their parleys with Mr. Karunanidhi, and continued to demand the
formation of Eelam,'' the report noted.

The interim report said that
credible reports existed of "active connivance of some DMK leaders with
the LTTE. The LTTE was in continuous interaction with Mr. Karunanidhi, primarily
to ensure that their activities continue unhindered even after the Padmanabha
killing.'' The ATR "noted'' the observation of the Commission that there
was a nexus between the LTTE and the ULFA and their combined endeavours in
Tamil Nadu had also been confirmed.

The Commission's report ponders over
questions of aid to the LTTE in the killing of Rajiv Gandhi. "Were there
other forces behind the LTTE involved in the conspiracy for the assassination
of Rajiv Gandhi? These are questions requiring a deep and anxious probe,'' the
report said referring to conspiratorial aspects which were yet to be dealt with
by the one-man probe panel.

Soon after the DMK Government took
over the reins of power in Tamil Nadu, the LTTE slowly began to consolidate
itself in the State. During 1990, a growing nexus between the LTTE and DMK and
its repercussions on the local law enforcement machinery were discernible. The
assassination of EPRLF leader K. Padmanabha and others at Madras on 19th June
1990 was a shocking reminder of the impunity with which the LTTE could operate
in India.

The case assumes significance due to
the fact that striking similarities were found in the Padmanabha assassination
and the case relating to the assassination of Shri Rajiv Gandhi. It can,
therefore, be safely concluded that the growing connivance of the DMK
Government with the LTTE having been brought to the knowledge of the National
Front Government, effective steps were not taken by the Central government to
check it, whatever may be the reasons.

From the evaluation of the material,
the conclusion is irresistible that there was tacit support to the LTTE by Shri
M. Karunanidhi and his Government and law enforcement agencies.

The charges, put together as long
quotations from the report, include: that the DMK provided a safe sanctuary for
the LTTE cadres and activists, it gave advice, active assistance, finance and
security cover to LTTE operations, and that the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
would not have been possible the way it happened without the nexus between the
LTTE and the DMK, a nexus which started a chain of events which led to the
survival and growth of the LTTE in Tamil Nadu long after the Government of
India's attitude had changed towards the LTTE and hostilities had broken out
between the Indian Peace Keeping Force and the LTTE in Sri Lanka, and finally
that the DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, had
"himself been instrumental in ensuring that things went smoothly for
LTTE'' and that the cadres of the LTTE had little fear of the security agencies
in India "thanks to the patronage of the DMK Government''.

NARCO-ANALYSIS – RIGHT OR
WRONG?

The advances in science must be used by the police to find out the
truth, to solve the mysteries of the crimes. It is the better option
for both investigation / interrogation than the classical
interrogation method involving third degree torture, where in the
accused breaks -down & blurts out the truth, usually, in most of the
cases innocents unable to bear the torture confesses to the crimes
they have not at all committed. The scientific tools of interrogation
namely Narco-analysis . Brain mapping & polygraph Tests must be made
mandatory for interrogation. The perpetrators of third degree torture
i.e. Police Military personnel must be punished severelly. Not just
on innocents, even on proven criminals police have no rights to
torture. It is grossly inhuman & illegal.

At present, there is certain bias in the usage of scientific
interrogation tools:-

1) Generally everybody is afraid of police & their corrupt practices.
Even innocent persons are frightened of false fix-ups & third degree
torture by police. This fear shows up in their heightened anxiety
level, changes in their blood pressure, respiration, heart-beat etc.,
There are chances of misinterpreting this as the "Fear of a criminal
of being caught"

2) These scientific tools are in the hands of police only. Therefore
it is biased towards the police or prosecution in a case. Forensic
science labs where these scientific interrogations are conducted are
under the control of Police department . Fundamental objective of
police is to prove their case, the prosecutions stand point rather
than finding out the truth. Sometimes, the stand points of
prosecution police are influenced by caste, political & monetary
considerations. This bias reflects in the preparation of
the "Questionnaire by the Interrogator" The interrogator if he wants
to bring out a negative image of the accused before the court, he
prepares the questionnaire such that only negative issues come out as
the answers. If the accused has got political patronage & has paid
hefty bribe to the police questionnaire is prepared such as to bring
out a positive image, to highlight innocent image of the accused.
Leaving out all other related questions, which brings out truth, a
negative image of the accused. The police are the one who decide the
fate, destiny of the accused.

3) Every human being has two personalities with in his sub -
conscious mind one personality is evil, selfish & craves for all
material pleasures. The other personality is good , humane & sociable
one. Whenever an issue comes up before a human being , whenever a
human being sees, reads or hears a subject two opinions are
formulated about it by him. One by his evil, selfish ego the other by
his good, humane self .A perfect human being, a social being is one
who controls his mind, contains the evil influences of his selfish
self and follows the guidance of his good self. This readily
expresses itself through good humane social actions. A criminal is
one who does not have control over his mind and acts according to the
evil guidance of the selfish self.

There are chances of mis-interpretation during scientific
interrogation . If you expose only evil self you will get a negative
image or else if you expose only the good self you will get a
positive image of the accused. For a balanced view, you have to see
the both evil-self & good self of the accused together with his past
& present actions.

4) At present only it is the prosecution who can use these scientific
interrogation facilities, but not the defence.
In the fake stamp paper scam during Narco Analysis , king pin Mr.
Karim Lala Telgi blurted out the truth - gave out the names of his
VVIP accomplices, Police accomplices, his business details, so far so
good.

Hereby I do request you to order both the union government & all
state governments :-

1) To keep the forensic science laboratories under the control of
autonomous bodies like National Human Rights Commission.

2) To make the scientific facilities of interrogation available for
both the prosecution & the defence of course, for a fee.

3) To enact legislation to subject the corrupt investigating officer,
corrupt public prosecutor, corrupt presiding judge of the case, etc.,
to scientific interrogations, by both the defence & prosecution.

4) To factor in the allowances for the natural fear for police (for
their corrupt, ruthless, devil face)

5) To create an unbiased impartial atmosphere free of fear or favour
to conduct the scientific interrogation.

6) To enact guidelines for scientific interrogation for framing
questions to bring out both good & evil self in the sub conscious to
have a balanced view of the man under question together with his past
& present actions .

7) To make it mandatory for all cases including VVIPs .

In various cases scams, involving VVIPs cases drag on for years.
Public money is wasted through waste of deliberations of the house (
Parliament, Legislative Assembly), Waste through constitution of
Parliamentary committees , Judicial commissions, why not all those
VVIPs accused of involvement in scams subjected to tests like Narco
analysis, poly graph, Brain finger printing etc., So that L K Advani
& Murali Manohar Joshi will tell about Babri Masjid demolition, Sonia
gandhi family will tell about Bofors, George Fernandese about
Tehelka, Raja about
telecom tenders, Lallo Prasad Yadav about fodder scam. The
scam tainted VVIP list goes on. Why not these VVIPs are subjected to
scientific interrogation with unbiased questionnaire?

Narcoanalysis and some
hard facts

SRIRAM LAKSHMAN

Narcoanalysis is being
mainstreamed into investigations and court hearings in India. This raises
grave scientific and ethical questions.

Narcoanalysis is conducted in a hospital in the presence of a physician and an
anaesthetist who administers the barbiturate. A clinical psychologist questions
the suspect. Here, a suspect in a 2004 murder case in Bangalore is being
"narcoanalysed". The court acquitted her as narcoanalysis could be
used only for investigation and not to convict suspects.

NARCOANALYSIS has become an
increasingly, perhaps alarmingly, common term in India. It refers to the
process of psychotherapy conducted on a subject by inducing a sleep-like state
with the aid of barbiturates or other drugs. In a spate of high-profile cases,
such as those of the Nithari killers and the Mumbai train blasts, suspects have
been whisked away to undergo an interview, drugged with the barbiturate sodium
pentothal.

This practice has also garnered
support from certain State governments as well as the judiciary. Politicians
have fallen into the habit of hurling the term `narcoanalysis' at each other.
In 2006, Karnataka Congress leader H. Vishwanath suggested that Chief Minister
H.D. Kumaraswamy and his colleagues undergo narcoanalysis in the Chenamma Trust
bribery case. The Home Ministry's forensic science directorate has yet to
withdraw a controversial manual on best practices in narcoanalysis in which it
states that facilities for narcoanalysis need to be expanded. There is also
talk of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in
Bangalore working with the Gandhinagar Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) to
train personnel in this technique. It is not surprising then that there are
about 300 people in the narcoanalysis queue at the FSL, Bangalore, alone.

It would appear that the
narcoanalysis beast has acquired a life of its own. It is increasingly knocking
at the doors of courts and finding ready acceptance as a device to get at the
truth during police investigations, though its scientific basis and value are
under strong challenge. It is for this reason that the scientific, legal, and
evidentiary issues relevant to the narcoanalysis debate need to be discussed
critically.

Narcoanalysis is rarely used for
therapeutic purposes today. The reliability of the practice has been questioned
by leading psychiatric and forensic experts. Dr. P. Chandra Sekharan, the
highly regarded former Director of the Forensic Sciences Department of Tamil
Nadu, has characterised the practice as an unscientific, third-degree method of
investigation. Nevertheless, sections of the police in India and those
connected with investigative agencies consider it the golden ticket to solving
difficult cases.

Far from being novel, truth serums
have been in use since the early part of the 20th century. The use of the drug
scopolamine for criminal narcoanalysis was first reported in 1922.
Barbiturates, which have been in use since the beginning of the last century,
were being used in psychotherapy for narcoanalysis by 1930 along with other
methods of therapy. During and after the War years, United States armed forces
and intelligence agencies continued to experiment with truth drugs. The Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) has admitted to using these as part of its
interrogation tactics, and a declassified CIA interrogation manual does concede
that while truth drugs can be useful in overcoming resistance not dissolved by
other methods, the actual content of what comes out during the interrogation
can be "psychotic manifestations... hallucinations, illusions, delusions
or disorientation".

At the 1977 U.S. Senate hearings on
its secret mind-control project, the CIA acknowledged that "no such magic
brew as the popular notion of truth serum exists".

It also said that even under the
best conditions, the barbiturates would elicit an output contaminated by
deception, fantasy, garbled speech, and so on. Studies have shown that persons
who make truthful confessions are those who were likely to confess had
interrogators persisted in using regular methods, and that persons who lie can
continue to manifest a lie even under the influence of a so-called truth serum.
In The Rape of the Mind, author and physician Joost Merloo says that the
investigator can also induce and communicate his own thoughts and feelings to
the suspect.

Scientific literature indicates that
if narcoanalysis has any extra-therapeutic uses, it may be in making a suspect
feel that he has revealed more than he actually did. With repeated questioning,
it may be possible to reduce ambiguities although these cannot be eliminated.